£500 WAR BOND FOUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18387, 1 May 1923, Page 7

£500 WAR BOND FOUND.

PATIENT SEARCH REWARDED. A,war bond for £500 which; wag -last.teen in 1918 was recently discovert in Cbrislshorch in & rather extraordinary , way. It was part and parcel."of; % d«- .' :, . ceased person'« .estate, arid a?. it '.-was- Mi': found among [effects, •t«-i.' gats a search for It..- ..Coinmunjcatabft-.-wVthi,' the' Treasury •; auUi^dtfes,.:. and.. through '• • • them .-with the-banl»i;. <$Übi&hed the '.feci ... that the deceased per son bad not ;: disposed, of it. had not deposited:it as' security'. for- : an advance,- ; and that none of l&o.coupons' had. been cashed since 1819. At Ibrsaraotime that. tires© foci® ; wer» : ascertained, stoppage of payment on this particular war tend was ordered, in case that it had fallen, into ' the .hands of a person who- had no ; right' to ..it,/ ' ' The ■ search was- eon tinned, and, ,a# a. . forlorn. hope, a. visit, *»} ;pao. to: tfca . bankers of th« jWfipiV >»<* 'inquiries were made as 'Jo whether. b& .had -, left' at- the bank any bos containing' data- ' men is. but no such box was found,- it was ' recalled by the searcher /that : -; the . ; deceased person was a partner ..- in >•;. firm fcbat also banked st the '• a&tna baflk;,.;..'.v.. I Drawing a bow at a ventnre, hft inquired \if there was any box containing -documents. . ' f belonging to 'the: fir<a at the, bant.. Search disclosed •: the existence.,of . snefc v ! a 'box, and on is: being opened -cm 'of = - . the first'documents..to enmuakjed w ' Z,' i the? missing war bead for £000,\.r ;