LOST BANK BOOK.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 286, 3 December 1938, Page 11

LOST BANK BOOK.

LONDONER REMEMBERS. HIS 1/ HAD GROWN TO 3/. (Special—By Air Mall.) LONDON, November 5. A Londoner who put 1/ in the Post ( Office Savings Bank 65 years ago lostj j his bank book in Australia about five i years later, then forgot all about it, 1 has just remembered and drawn out the shilling, plus 2/ interest. ; He is Mr. H. C. Andrews, of Clapj ham, London, who went to sea as an 3 apprentice, accompanied by his bank j book, with its one entry. He came back without, this rfecord of bis wealth and thought no more about it until a few weeks ago he that the Post 2 Office had about *£4,000,000 in small - forgotten accounts. v "As an experiment," he said this h week, "I sent an application to the - Post Office Savings Bank telling them "of my account. They sent me a OT t f a to fili in, but I could only tell them * t, post office at Dover" and my I x did not even remember my addres e that time. In three weeks the / ( ,g [Office had traced my account.