SIFTING MONEY.
It is not everyone that has money to sift, or knows that money actually is sifted. A man might have been seen yesterday in the tent erected on a comer of the Cathedral grounds busily engaged in sifting silver. The women who were collecting for the Rotary Club’s effort to give the orphans a happy Christmas brought in their boxes from time to time, and the contents were emptied into tin sieves as big as a large cake tin, with varying sized holes in the bottom. One sieve would allow only threepenny pieces to pass, another caught everything but sixpences, and so on. The coins were then collected in piles, five shillings or ten shillings in a pile, and the trouble of counting the collection was reduced to a minimum.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 11
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132SIFTING MONEY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 19258, 20 December 1930, Page 11
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