SEARCH BY POLICE
Return Of £lOO To N.Z. Man (N .Z A.-Reuter— Copyright) PERTH, July 15. A New Zealander, dogged by bad luck a few days before his marriage at Perth seven months ago, may soon be located by Australian police, who want to give him £lOO. A heavy haulage truck driver. Nelson George Orbel Lee, aged 28, formerly of New Zealand and Sydney, now is somewhere in New Zealand or Eastern Australia. Police want to return to him £lOO he lost within a few hours of his arrival at Perth seven months ago to marry a Perth girl. Miss Jean Hennessey. The honesty of a Perth schoolboy started the search for Lee. The boy found the wallet, and took it to police, who traced it back to Lee. Bad Luck Lee’s bad luck began in eastern Australia shortly before he left for Perth for his marriage. His and another car collided, he was injured, his car wrecked —and after treatment he had to fly to Perth to reach the church in time. In Perth he bought return tickets to Sydney for twothen lost his wallet and the 100 £1 notes and the airlines tickets it contained. Police think Lee and his wife worked briefly in New South Wales before going back to New Zealand.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29567, 17 July 1961, Page 7
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215SEARCH BY POLICE Press, Volume C, Issue 29567, 17 July 1961, Page 7
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