MISSING £400 RECOVERED

Chronicle (Levin), 28 July 1947, Page 2

MISSING £400 RECOVERED

WELLINGTON, July 27. What must rank as the fairv story of the vear had a happy ending today when men who lost £400 in notos and silver had the plcasure of seeing tnc greater portion of it uncovered by a bulldozer and a band of voluutary workcrs at the city refuse ti p. The money had been misisug sin'-e Tuesday when it inadvertently got tui ;ced up with the contents of a refuse bin in a city cake shop. Despitc the fact that £75 of it was in silver the dustmau did not find any of the cakeshop's bins unusuallv wcighty. When the rubbish was emptied at the tip a great load oi waste coke was dejiosited on top of it and a roller drawn over it. e Today the scareli was 011 in carncst From au early hour 20 volunteors assisted bv the paid services of a Imlldoze.r dug and rakcd aud sliovelleil, and from time to time turncd over a blackeiied coin ora batlered uote. The owner of the lioard stood by anxiously clutching a sinall canvas bag into which each find was carefully secreled. Without the bulldozer it is doubtful whethcr the money would Jiave been uueovercd. One sweep , of the giant bladc rcmoved the surfaee coke waste and a second turncd over miscellaneous refuse. Thcn came rakcs and fo'rks and in a matter of miiiutcs the olusive eurrency began to appear.