LOST, A “FIVER”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 144, 19 June 1936, Page 6

LOST, A “FIVER”

TARANAKI RESIDENT “GENEROSITY” TO FINDER REWARD NOT FORTHCOMING yV'UL'LD person \xho picked up £5 note in Woolwortn’s yester- • day (Wednesday) afternoon, please leave a.t Chronicle office? Reward. A fortnight ago a Taranaki resident visiting Wanganui had the misfortune to drop a £5 note in a busy store, and the advertisement, worded as above, was inserted in the “Chronicle” in the hope that some honest person might have found the money and would return it. If a betting man were asked to name the odds against the recovery of a £,) note lost in these circumstances he would have quoted liberal odds, in racing parlance, considering it a forlorn chance. Even the addition of the tempting “reward” would not be considered sufficient inducement to cause the finder to return such a sum unless he were as honest as all are expected to be. Fortunately the finder of this particular £5 note was a young lady resident in Gonville, who communicated with the “Chronicle” on reading the advertisement, announcing her find. She stated that i.t was inconvenient to bring the note to the office owing io illness in the house, but asked that the owner be communicated with so that the money could be called for. Nearly two weeks after the loss of the money the Taranaki resident called at the Gonville address, received the money, thanked the finder profusely—and departed without leaving a reward. “You can scarcely imagine how much I enjoyed spending that reward in advance,” the finder informed the “Chronicle.” She said that she thought perhaps a couple of shillings, | perhaps five, cr even ten “for a pair of silk stockings,” would have been forthcoming. The loser of the money i drove up in a motor-car of apparently the latest design, she stated. He was impressively dressed, and said that he had been enjoying his first holiday in eight years. “But he didn’t mention the word reward,” she concluded, “and I suppose I am expected to send the next £5 note along in a registered envelope or hire a taxi to take it to its careless owner.”