ROMANCE OF A DEPOSIT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13454, 3 June 1907, Page 3

ROMANCE OF A DEPOSIT.

' HOW £110 HAS GROWN. The people of Coburg, says the Melbourne Argus, are proud of their local State school, both as an educational institution and as an example of what can be accomplished by combined effort in beautifying school '■ grounds. Mr. J. E. Shoohan, 8.A., the head teacher, some years ago initiated the movement for improvement in school furnishing and general adornment, . and sueceedod interesting th ,° scholars to such an extent that the school has been awarded several prizes for its well-kept grounds The interest of the parents also was aroused by the. success of the school, and, - besides coributmg tho children's pennies weekly to the improvement fund, they organised a Sf e to k * ei? the grounds ß in- Order and, the .improvement scheme movinWly every Saturday afternoon members may be seen energetically tilling the grounds, and it stated that an cntnusias ed ?h« ° f , th ° Mftropohtan Board devoted the whole of his throe weeks' annual leave to gardening at > the school, On the first day that the members of the workingbee assembled at , tho school ground Mr bheehan observed Mr. Patterson, deputy EThe tll nt f d ¥°' WatC , hin S rfS I!.! Stockade fence » which is close to the school grounds. During a „ interest SafeLf Patterson stated tha Ihe present school was originally an orderlvroom, used as the- ftritriSge NationS not, o '' w d W , SS also utilised foi social purposes. He also stated that there was an SWr" 1 "'" connected' wTth th" ,_ 't ™ * V*i rumo ««-ed that a good bank of money had been posited in the Vi'<S. nd i. had never bee » claimed. -ur. u; oehan ' seeing a chance of augmenting his improvement, fund, prosecuted in SMrp without success SKK&S----1 me Mr. Patterson had been promoted to the governorship of the Gtelong S and ho. subsequent wrote to M? KhcLu gating .that, amongsT.lds old pipe ,?gifffl discovered a memorandum to the effect that NaTional ST"', 'rT^ 1 of Pen ridge SiniSri' - Con ™i«ee,. had deposited and he .the. Union Bank on April 6 185 3, bank h ° ■ t fe ,gh ifc tb m °™* was sti!l in th ° cated with A? heehan f>P«y. oommunio«ea witn the manager of the bank, who expressed profound astonishment at the "dis" thTlf th ° 9™ation, but admitted that, the money was an the bank. m on ft V — for e non-withdrawal of the money 1S ' interesting. 'At the time the money was deposited Mr. Barron was the superintendent of the Pentridgo Stockade a position which he, was the fir! to fill and which he held until" 1854, when he resigned m order to undertake the duties of St drowZl W'. to was unfortumtdy drowned in Hobson'a Bay on April 6 of th« same year. The other members of the com mittee.left the city for the diggings ; It is claimed that this money so discoverled belongs to the.Education Department he first place but, properly speaking, to tho Coburg State school. It has been worked out that even at ordinary Savings Bank, interest, the original denosit, with compound interest added, should now bo nShT r , £ll00! 7 hc Plication SaS ment have been made acquainted with this extraordinary , tor y'.»* as yet have taken no steps towards claiming the money.