HE'LL GET HIS REWARD.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 4 December 1924, Page 7

HE'LL GET HIS REWARD.

BUT NOT IN DUNEDIN. A conductor on the Maori Hill trams, in Dunedin (reports the Otago Daily Times) thought that he was one of the chosen of the gods the other day, when he found the sum of £l6 in Bank of New Zealand currency notes, all nicely tied up in a little white canvas bag with the- letters “8.N.Z.” printed thereon, lying in the track of his car. Strictly speaking, the car should not nave stepped there, but under the circumstances the conductor arid met airman must both be forgiven. Fortunately, the conductor was ail honest man, and had a shrewd suspicion that the money belonged to a woman who was standing near-by. The woman had more than a suspicion that it belonged to her husband, who was walking up the road not far away. "‘Boh.” she called, “Bob! where’s your money?” ; Bob felt hurriedly through each pocket and then looked up with an expression of frozen, horror on his face. Good heavens!” cried he. “Good heavens It’s gone!” Perhaps it was that his ’gratitude was too deep to be expressed in words, or that lie thought that the conductor would be insulted if he endeavoured to make a tangible recognition of services rendered, for he. hastened away -without a word. The conductor is a bit of a philosopher, however, and he expresses the belief that he wilt ‘‘get his reward in heaven.”