SANTA CLAUSE IN DISGUISE.
Krgrv Christmas some institution or other receives a visit from an unknown j santu C laus (says a London paper). ! *° r years the inmates of the workJ house in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, , lor example, welcomed a Santa Claus : whom nobody knew the name ot. Every Christmas regularly a wealthy uu known lady used to drive up in a car- . riago absolutely laden with presents foi the poor workhouse people, but to the j day of her death she remained un- | Another unknown Santa turned up one . Christmas at the Royal National j Lifeboat Institution. He spent sortie time with tho secretary, chatting about the work of the famous institution and as lie was leaving he handed a little package to the secretary as a Christmas gift. The secretary was amazed when lie opened the package and found in it notes to the amount of £IOOO. To this day the unknown Santa Claus lias never been discovered.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17223, 14 December 1923, Page 10 (Supplement)
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