LOST NOTES RETURNED

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 December 1934, Page 6

LOST NOTES RETURNED

QUALIFIED HONESTY. [per pbess association.] GISBORNE, December 27. There is a very happy storekeeper in a small Poverty Bay township tonight. On Saturday last, following a practice carried out for several years, a taxi-driver of the township was given a cheque by the storekeeper to bring back change from a bank in Gisborne. The cheque on this occasion was for £150; and the taxi-driver was told to bring back £125 in one pound and ten shilling notes, and £25 in silver. He procured the money from the bank, put it, as usual, in a safe place on the bottom of the car, and immediately set out for home. On the arrival of the taxi-driver it was found that a board, on which the money had been placed, had fallen through the bottom of the car. The board was well worn, and probably the weight of the silver caused the breakage. The drivei' tore back, but he could see no trace of the money. The loss was advertised, but nothing was heard of it.

By this afternoon’s mail, however, the storekeeper received a parcel in a dirty brown wrapping paper, containing notes to the value of £123. There was no indication as to the sender. Needless to say, the shopkeeper will spend a merry Christmas after all, despite the loss of £27.