MONEY THROWN AWAY.

Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14648, 28 February 1918, Page 2

MONEY THROWN AWAY.

There was a touch of pantomino1 about • Highett street, Hichmond (Melbourne), recently, when a golden kettle disappeared. Everybody ivho heard of it was amused, bub the laugh was not shared by those .immediately interested. It was a simple case. Mr George Ayres had hidden away £30; Airs Ayres had thrown the money away. There was an old cast-iron kettle under a shod in the yard lying about as outworked and pensioned kettles do. Mr Ayres picked up the old kettle and decided that the rusty old pot was "not half, a bad place in which to hide money He placed £28 10s in notes and three half-sovereigns in: it, and left it in the shed. Later Mrs Ayres unluckily cleaned up the shed, and one of the things' which she decided could be done without was the rusty old kettle. She threw it over the fence'into tho right-of-way. Of course she dicUnot know until too lato that the kettle had done duty as a bank. JNfobody reported hav- | ing found the money, and the oolice {were notified of tho loss. • " .