LOSS AFTER RACES.

Feilding Star, Volume 4, Issue 677, 8 January 1926, Page 5

LOSS AFTER RACES.

FARMER DROPS WALLET. Sl T M OF £216 MISSING. f " “ I attended the Feilding races on Saturday and had the good fortune to increase a. .sum of £6O, which 1 took with me, by over. £l6O, making the total amount in my wallet something like £216,” said Mr Jack Perrin, a young farmer from Rangitikei Line, in an interview subsequently.Naturally Mr Perrin was exceedingly pleased with bis good luck, out having a flock of sheep grazing in the borough reserve at the corner of Alexandra and Ferguson streets, lie made his customary visit- to the field to till the watering trough, and while stooping to- work a hand pump it is thought that the bulky wallet found its way to the top of his inside coat pocket. Apparently, when he went back to the road and cranked his car the valuable container dropped on to the road.

About TO p.m., some three and a half hours later, Mr Perrin received a telephone ring, stating that the speaker had seen the wallet picked uj) and that it then contained only a driver’s license and a number of private papers. That evening during the interval at the picture theatre an advertisement was flashed upon the screen stating that a valuable sum of money had been lost, for which a reward of £25 was offered. This, however, brought im response, , and an advertisement appeared in the press offering a. reward of £SO for the return of the missing notes. In view of the fact that the loser of the money did not leave liis car in Grey street, it can only be assumed ■that the wallet was found ouside the sheep paddock and deposited where it was pi cited up after the notes had been extracted.