FOUND IN STREET

Auckland Star, Volume LXXII, Issue 205, 30 August 1941, Page 9

FOUND IN STREET

£2450 IN HANDBAG

WOMAN'S 40 YEARS' SAVINGS

i <p - A -» DUXEDIX. Fridav. | An elderly man walked into a , suburban police station on Thursdav , I and laid on the desk a handbag con- : taming 49 130 notes. £2450. which he' : nad picked up in the street. The sergeant in charge has not vet re- 1 covered from the shock of finding : I that, in spite of taxation and other i calls on the public purse, there is ! still so much liquid capital in eircu- | lation. j rhe address of the owner, an elderly woman, was In the bag. but • the police were saved the trouble of calling on her. because a few minutes after the monev had been banded in she hurried into the station to report her loss. The notes, which represented the savings of nearly 40 years, were all of the Reserve Bank issue, for while the owner apparently had little faith in the country's banking system, she had been careful to convert all trading notes which had been in her possession before the Reserve Bank assumed control of currencv issue into the notes of that bank. '