LOSS OF £50 NOTE

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 29, 3 January 1940, Page 4

LOSS OF £SO NOTE

INCIDENT AT FEILDING RACES. Making a mistake, an investor at the Feilding races at the end ot November paned with a £SO note when making a 10s investment on the totalisator. His choice was not a winner and some days later the investor realised that ho had lost the £SO note. When the Feilding Jockey Club was balancing accounts following the conclusion of the meeting it was found that the proceeds of the totalisator included a £SO note and that the accounts failed to balance in that there was a surplus of £49 10s. This sum was deposited in a suspense account in the conviction that it would ultimately be claimed. . i Some day 6 elapsed before anything further was heard of the investment. Certain inquiries were made, but no owner could be discovered until the first day of the Manawatu meeting when the Feilding Club’s secretary (Mr Giiy Goodbehere) was approached with the querv as to whether the club had been out 111 its totalisator balance. The question was qualified by the statement that a £SO note had gone astray and the owner wondered if by chance he had paid it in on an investment in mistake for a 10s note. Mr Goodbehere acknowledged that the club was holding a sum of £49 10s on behalf of some unknown person as ht appeared from the presence of the £SO note in the cash that some one had paid in a £SO note in mistake for 10s. Evidence was soon forthcoming to satisfy the club officials that the person i concerned was the owner of the £4J 10s and this was handed over.