FORGOTTEN MONEY.
“Lost” Depositors in England. The Post Office Savings Bank, largest custodian ot other people’s money in Britain, has ‘lost’" about 80,000 of its depositors. They are people who seem to have forgotten th: it they have mon y in the bank. Year by year interest amounts up, but they never come to claim it. Over a million and a quarter pounds stands to their credit. The authorities are making great efforts to get in todch v.'lth these people. Probably many of them died without informing their relatives that they had money in the hark Others drew out most of the’r m.onev but forgot the few odd shillings, which are still slowly earning interest. But some depositor? vnnishe-’ into thin air. leaving hundreds ot pounds to their credit.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 388, 20 March 1937, Page 7
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