"ONLY TEN SHILLING NOTES!"

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXII, Issue 57, 5 May 1924, Page 2

"ONLY TEN SHILLING NOTES!"

SCATTERED IN QUEEN STREET

Auckland, April 30.

A tall man walking along Queen Street the other day became the centre of interest near Fort Street. He was carrying two fairly large hand bags, when one of them was knocked open. The . wind ,immediate]y stirred up the contents, and what appeared to be hand bills began to flutter to the ground. A short distance behind, a visitor from the country, Mrs Davis of Birkdale. saw the papers, and glancing at them she was amazed to see they were ten shilling notes. Greatly excited she grabbed as many as she could and shouted, "Hi. You are losing all your money!" The man with the bags stopped, and Mrs Davis, who had collected 17 notes, shoved them into the open receptacle, which, to her amazement, was apparently full of paper money. . "Hero is another," said a passerby who had also got hold of one of the notes.

"Oh, thank you," acknowledged the owner, in a matter of fact voice, "they are only ten shilling notes." And he turned on his heel and walked "Well," remarked a bystander, "he might have given the lady ten bob for luck!"