LADY'S LOST TICKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19027, 26 May 1925, Page 12

LADY'S LOST TICKET.

RAILWAY PLATFORM HUNT. Quito a little stir of excitement, vas caused at the Napier railway station last week, prior to the departure of the Wellington express train. A very much perturbed young lady discovered that :he had lost her ticket, which entitled her to a reserved seat. As the; lady was charming as well as distressed tho usual morning bustle at tho station was considerably augmented by the frantic endeavours of several male passengers to tflnd the lost pasteboard and for several minutes the platform presented tho appearance of a vast room in which a game of "hunt tho thimble" was being played. Men of all descriptions and ages peered and pried into all sorts of nooks and crannies, what time the damsel in distress looked serenely on, happy in tho knowledge that man had come to the rescue, Tho cream of the incident occurred, says a local paper, when the girl, in taking a powder puff from her bag, came upon tho missing ticket and uttering an exclamation of relief quietly boarded the train without saying anything about the matter. Slio was supremely indifferent to the frantic search that was still being made by the men, who only relinquished the chase when ordered to take their seats.