£610 BANKNOTE LOST

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 February 1930, Page 10

£610 BANKNOTE LOST

WOMAN’S HARD LUCK. SYDNEY, January 18. Two persons, a man and a froinan, lost more, than £6OO in banknotes in the city yestefday. The woman was in such poor circumstances that she had been forced to sell a block of land. Her husband is an invalid. She had only just been paid for the land when she found that she had lost the money. Mr Herbert J. Dyer, a grocer, of George Stret North, withdrew £5OO from his banking account, intending to place the money to his son’s credit in the Government Savings Bank. It was to be a gift and a start in life. Mr Dyer, however, did not go straight to the savings b’ank, but visited a number of addresses in the city, booking grocery orders. Later he found that his wal'iet, which had contained the money, was missing from his pocket, and as he remembered no suspicious incidents, he felt convinced that he had lost the money, which comprised £5(7, £2'o, £lO and £5 banknotes, the numbers of which had been circulated to all banks. Mr Dyer told the police that he wduld give a. reward of £lOO for the return of his money. The other loser was Mrs Elsie Thatcher, of Ennis Street, Balmain. Yesterday afternoon she received a cheque for £llO in payment for a block of land which she and her invalid husband had beCn forced to sell. She cashed the cheque, arid then thought that the ti'hie was propitious to consult an optician.. “I have hardly been able to see,” sh© said yesterday. “I thought, that a's I had waited so long, I had better go immediately and have my eyes attended to.” | Then she found that she had lost the money, which consisted of two £5O and one £lO banknotes.