“Has anyone seen a lady’s purse?” came the voice of a brass-buttoned official in a carriage of the south-bound Whnngarei express a few days ago (says the Auckland “Star’'). A man reading a paper stirred, ami something fell to (he floor. He looked down, and saw a neat patent leather purse of plain design. The owner had rushed in haste from the Wcllsioid Show, and after an hour’s journey in a crowded train got out at a wayside station. A man who had been standing on the carriage platform took Hip vacant -eat, and two stations further on officials began a search. In the place where it was lost the purse laid snugly, the noally folded notes inside rousing no suspicions on the part of the absorbed traveller.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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128Untitled Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 127, 27 February 1928, Page 11
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