MONEY BAG LOST.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LX, Issue 10828, 29 March 1932, Page 3

MONEY BAG LOST.

FOUND AND RETURNED BY MILKMAN. Auckland, March 29 About 12 hours after discovering the loss from his motor-car of a Glad stone bag containing nearly £IOO, Mr Herbert Valentine, garage proprietor and drainage contractor, who is in busines sin Great North Road, Grey Lynn, had his property restored vo him last evening. It was found only a quarter of a mile from his garage by Mr R. Conn, a milkman, of 4, Forbes Street, Onehunga. Early yesterday morning, before leaving his home in Dominion Road, Mr Valentine placed the bag on the running hoard of his car while he returned to the house to get some articles which he had forgotten. Ho came back with them, entered the car and drove off, forgetting that the hag was still on the running board. He drove to Grey Lynn via Bright Street, and it was only when he arrived at his garage that he discovered the loss of the bag. He immediately reported the matter to the police, and was himself inclined to the theory that the bag had fallen off the running board at the intersection of Mount Albert Road and Dominion Road, where the junction of concreted and metalled roadways makes the road somewhat humpy. However, nothing was heard of the bag during the,day. Mr Valentine said the bag contained a chdque for £33, made out in the name of a firm, the rest of the money being in notes and silver, and the total valne being £9B 15s. While he was at his garage last evening Mr Valentino received scores of telephone messages from friends, sympathising with him over hii loss. Shortly after eight o’clock he was talking to one friend and agreeing with him that the logs of the bag was a “rotten piece of luck’’ when a man entered the garage.

“I had just hung up the telephone receiver when the fellow came up and asked me if I was the man who had lost a bag.” Mr Valentine said, “When I told him that I was, he grinned and said: ‘Well, here it is.’ I was so pleased that I could hardly grasp his hand for excitement. I gave him what I hope was a substantial reward and tilled the tank of his car Avith benzine. He seemed satisfied, and to say that I was satisfied is to put it altogether too mildly.”

Mr Conn Avas just finishing his morning rounds Avhen he found the bag lying in the street near the junction of Bright Street and Great North Road. He had been working since the early hours of the morning and when he had finished his rounds took the bag home Avith him. After having his usual dally sleep he made inquiries concerning the loss of the bag and Avas able to restore it to its owner.