NEW ZEALAND’S HONESTY

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1930, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND’S HONESTY

AUSTRALIAN IMPRESSED ' £lOO NOTES GIVEN BY MISTAKE. PROMPT RETURN BY RECIPIENTS (By Wire. —Special to News). 1 Auckland, Last Night. A stranger to Auckland, Dr. A. J. Ross, who recently arrived from Australia, gave away £2OO in banknotes on Monday in mistake for £2. Next morning a taxi* driver and a shopkeeper on discovering the mistake went to the house where Dr. Ross is staying at St. Hellers and returned the notes—a fine example of the honesty of New Zealand people, as the Australian visitor put it. Dr. Ross stated that he was on a health trip and came, into the city to make some expensive purchases. He had several Australian banknotes wrapped up in a handkerchief in his pocket, together with some New (Zealand £1 notes. IK made several small purchases and then took a taxi home.’

’'What was my surprise next 'morning,”, he said, “to receive a visit from the taxi driver (ind a shopkeeper, both returning me £lOO notes, which I did not know I had missed, New Zealanders must foe the most honest people in the world, for I would never have traced unaided the two people to whom I gave the wrong notes.”