LOST PROPERTY

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 127, 22 February 1941, Page 8

LOST PROPERTY

Few People Advertise Articles Found FRONT PAGE “NEWS” Conspicuous evidence of the absentmindedness, carelessness, or bad luck of some people is provided daily by the Lost and Found • ■oluuius of newspapers, and an inspection of these columns on the front pages of Wellington dailies of the past week shows that a Monday’s issue had the highest number of advertisements, 36. Sunday being a non-publishing day, doubtless bad much

to do with this, for the average daily number an issue was 17. Only about 5 per cent, of advertisers were giving notice of articles found. Whether it. be in Wellington. Auckland. Christchurch, or Dunedin, the variety of property lost is practically the same. So It is that Wellington advertisers have sought the return of furs, men’s and women’s gloves, wallets (with and without money), £5 and £1 notes and other sums of money (loose), jewelled brooches, umbrellas, handbags, a library book, keys for houses, offices and cars, watches, spectacles (one pair left in a Newtown telephonebooth), a canary, a bathing costume, and parcels of clothing and knitting. Anxious owners sought information about, the whereabouts of nine dogs and five budgerigars. The dogs included <r setter, a spaniel pup. a- fox terrier, bulldogs, a black labrador, an airedale, a cocker spaniel and a Gorman collie, and were mostly missing from city addresses. One of the missing budgerigars was described as having a blue chest and tail and the ability to say

"Billy Boy.” A yellow budgerigar was inquired about irom a Brooklyn address, a green one from Khandullah and another blue one from Fetone. Surgical Instruments.

Among the more unusual articles advertised for was tr doctor’s leather attache case containing surgical instruments, drugs and sterilizer; a halffinished evening dress mislaid by a passenger last Saturday’s Wellingtoii-to-Napier express; and the left shoe of a new pair, the sljoe being lost in the vicinity of Mein Street, Newtown. Other lost items of interest included a 2001 b. bag of flour, two sacks of wheat and one sack of poultry mash in the Hutt Valley, a roll of carpet between Taranaki and Gliuznee Streets, a volunteer enlistment badge in the Lower Hutt recreation ground, two sunshades at Worser Bay, rosary beads in a city theatre, a soldier’s paybook in the vicinity of Wellington Railway Station, and a refrigerator cover between Te Iloro and Levin.