WANGANUI PASSENGERS ARE ABSENT-MINDED, BUS DRIVERS FIND

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 November 1950, Page 4

WANGANUI PASSENGERS ARE ABSENT-MINDED, BUS DRIVERS FIND

Inaugurated as Wanganui’s internal i public transport system only six weeks ago, Greyhound Buses Limited already has an imposing array of various > articles of clothing and accessories which careless passengers have left in its buses. Fifty-five different articles ■: have so *ar been found by drivers, and • i only 19 of them have been collected by i their owners. •. Gloves are numerous in the “left 11 u £B a ge ’ collection, while there is also • a good representation of purses and ■ handbags. Women’s hats—mainly | berets —also figure largely in the list • and umbrellas and children's toys seem [ to be easily mislaid, too. | More forgetful passengers have left ~ the firm with several rain-coats, some lof which ar? still awaiting claimants. Suit-cases and a pillow provide further bulky additions to the colleclion and the finding of a woman’s shoe I also provokes speculation. | No more revealing comment on the 'honesty of Hie bus-drivers could be | forthcoming ti an the following entry Jm the register oi objects handed in: i “One packet of cigarettes. ’