IN LUCK’S WAY

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2310, 1 December 1925, Page 5

IN LUCK’S WAY

OVER £6OO RECOVERED. MONET MISTAKEN FOR TOOLS. A man coming along Devon Street, New Plymouth, ono night last week, chanced upon an old bag on the side of the road, and, thinking it contained tools, dropped by some passing motorcar, he threw the bag into a shed used by a friend of his, a car painter. There it lay in the open until next morning, when Its owner cam e along and took 1 away the bag and the £SO odd it contained. . This amount of money was th® direct result of hundredweights of fish having passed over a counter from retailer to customer. The fishmonger had placed the savings in a bag strapped to the rear of his motorcycle, and the bag and precious contents fell off unnoticed.

He returned over the same route aa soon as he discovered his loss, but found nothing. He inserted a “Lost” advertisement in the “Taranaki Herald,’’ stating a large sum of money was involved, for the return of Which! there would be a reward of £7.

It is stated that the man who had' found the bag (lost his false teeth upon reading the advertisement. They fell to the ground and broke. Hearing of a person having picked up tho bag, and where it had been thrown, the fishmonger, with a shrewdness associated with some of the creatures he retailed to the public, called at th e car painter’s workshop, and asked if Mr. had left a bag for him. Mr. certainly had, as far as that car painter could judge, and the bag went to its owner.