PICKED UP IN STREET

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1941, Page 2

PICKED UP IN STREET

LARGE SUM OF MONEY. A WOMAN'S FORTY YEARS’ SAVINGS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) DUNEDIN, August 29. An old-age pensioner walked into a suburban police station on Thursday and laid on a desk a handbag containing 49 £5O notes—no less a sum than £24so—which he had picked up on the street. The sergeant in charge has not yet recovered from the shock of finding that, in spite of taxation and other calls on the public purse, there is still so much liquid capital in circulation. The address of the owner, an elderly woman, was in the bag, but the police were saved the trouble of calling on her because . a few minutes after the money had been handed in she hurried into the station to report her loss. The notes, which represented the savings of nearly 40 years, were all of Reserve Bank issue for, though the owner apparently had little faith in the country’s banking system, she had been careful to convert all trading bank notes which had been in her possession before the Reserve Bank assumed control of the currency issue into notes of that bank. i