WINDFALL.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 12

WINDFALL.

A LUCKY WAITRESS. LEGACY OF £15,000. SYDNEY, Dec. 3. An orphan girl, Miss Gwendoline Bailey, who has recently beqn engaged as a waitress at one of the large seaside boarding establishments at St. Kilda, Melbourne, lias unexpectedly come into, possession of a fortune of £15,700. Nobody was more suprised than she was to hear of such a. legacy from a grand uncle who had carried on business as a wholesale draper in Liverpool, England, and whom she had never even met. And it was the merest chance that she heard of her good fortune. She happened one day to visit the Carlton branch of the Commonwealth Savings Bank, where she was well known, and one of the officials remarked to her that he had sfen her name in the “Alissing Friends” column, with a notification that it would be to her advantage to call at a certain address. This she did without delay/ and soon learnt of the de.ath of her grand uncle and his generosity towards her. It is thirteen years since Aliss Bailey left her home at Ulverstone on the north-west coast of Tasmania, and her path in life has not been strewn with roses. While she was a little girl her great aunt, wife of the uncle who has just died, visited the family in Tasmania, and took a great fancy to the child, whom she desired to take back to England. The child’s mother was unwilling to part with her, and the idea was abandoned. But the child for some time corresponded with her.great aunt, until, after the death of her mother and her arrival in Australia she lost touch, and had no idea of the death of her grand uncle until informed by the bank official, although the advertisement had been appearing at intervals for several months. Miss Bailey remarked, upon being congratulated upon her good fortune, that it gave her the funniest sensation imaginable. At first she was bewildered'; and she had hardly been able to sleep since hearing of it. For some time she has been engaged to-a young contractor. and she remarked that probably her grand aunt would want her to go to England. “But,” she remarked, “I shall not go without my boy.”