WINDFALLS.
SOVEKEIGN FOE A. HALPPENK?.
Money found on tramcara or exccsa moneys given by passengers in mistake to conductors as lares, and unclaimed, will in future be handed over' half-yearly to the Tramways Benefit Society, or to such other society as, in the opiifion of the Tramways Committee, benefits the tramway employees generally. This decision was arrived at by the City Council yesterday, as the result of the committee a consideration of a case in which a sovereign was given to a conductor in mistake for a halfpenny. Councillor Bevina thought that the public had a right to b« considered. Tho Mayor explained that in the case under notice five -months had elapsed and no claim had been made for the sovereign. An attempt had been made to find the loser, but without success. It was further stated that the conductor in this case had asked to be allowed to keep the sovereign, but it ra thought xnoro advisable to devote such windfalls to a common stock than ta make them individual prizes.
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 833, 3 June 1910, Page 4
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173WINDFALLS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 833, 3 June 1910, Page 4
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