LOST AND FOUND.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21143, 29 March 1932, Page 8

LOST AND FOUND.

BAG CONTAINING £IOO. DROPPED OFF A MOTOR-CAR. FOUND LATER BY A MILKMAN. About 12 hours aftjr discovering the loss from his motor-car of a Gladstone bag containing nearly £IOO, Mr. Herbert Valentine, garage proprietor and-drainage contractor, who is in business in Great North Road, Grey Lynn, had his property restored to him last evening. It was found only a quarter of a mile from his garage by Mr. R. Conn, a milkman, of 4, Forbes Street, Onehunga. Early yesterday morning, before having his home in Dominion Road, Mr. Valentine placed the bag on the running board of Ins car while he returned to the house to genome articles which he had forgotten. He came back with them, entered the car and drove off, forgetting that the bag was still on the running board. He drove to Grey Lynn via Bright Street, and it was only when he arrived at his garage that he discovered the loss of the bag. A Welcome Visitor. He immediately reported the matter to the police,'and was himself inclined to the theory that the bag had fallen off the running board at the intersection of Mount Albert Road and Dominion Road, where the junction of concreted and metalled roadways makes the road somewhat bumpy. However, nothing was heard of the bag during the day. Mr. Valentine said the bag contained a cheque for £33, made cut in the name of a firm, the rest of the money being in notes and silver, and the total value being £9B 15s. While he was at his garage last evening Mr. Valentine received scores of telephone messages from friends, sympathising with him over his loss. Shortly after eight o'clock he was talking to one friend and agreeing with him that the loss of the bag was a " rotten piece ol luck" when a man entered the garage. Picked up in Street. " I had just hung up the telephone receiver when the fellow came up and asked me if I was the man who had lost a bag," Mr. Valentine said. "When I told him that I was, he grinned and said: ' Well, here it is.' I was so pleased that I could hardly grasp his hand for excitement. I gave him what I hope was a substantial reward and filled the tank of his car with benzine. He seemed satisfied, and to say that I was satisfied is to put it altogether too mildly." Mr. Conn was just finishing his morning rounds when he found the oag lving in the street near the junction of Bright Street and Great North Road. He had been working since the early hours of the morning and when he had finished his rounds took the bag home with him. After having his usual daily sleep ho made inquiries concerning the loss of the bag and was able to restore it to its owner.