£40 DROPPED IN STREET
An elderly man walking along. Harrup Street. Dunedin, fumbled in a trouser pocket for bis pipe and as be withdrew it <i small bundle fell to Hie pavement. Unconscious of Ills loss, and with head bowed over a cupped ma tell, the owner of the money walked on. Twenty paces behind him another pedestrian had noticed the package fall. He picked up Hie wad aud with pardonable curiosity counted the notes —£4o—and then hurried on to catch their owner. "I think you dropped this,” he said. The answer was a quick glance ami "I didn’t drop anything.-' Tlie man of money took a step forward and then dropping a hand to hi« pocket, almost yelled "Ell I and swinging round, said. "Yes. 'bat is mini'.'' The mone.i was passed over, ami the only oilier remark was "Can't think how it came out of my pocket.” The finder kept his thoughts to hlmeeli.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 128, 23 February 1939, Page 11
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156£40 DROPPED IN STREET Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 128, 23 February 1939, Page 11
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