FORGOTTEN HOARDS

Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1929, Page 3

FORGOTTEN HOARDS

AUCKLAND INSTANCES. AUCKLAND, Jan 18. The hoarding of money by old people who'seem often to forget where they have put it while they live in a most meagre way has been brought very prominently to light during recent days. An old man went to the Auckland Hospital to have his eyes treated. His apparent poverty was a, matter of deep sympathy amongst doctors anti nurses, yet he had £IOOO worth of securities secreted in his clothes. This week there has been discovered an old lady living in poverty had apparently existing only on the old age pension who had stowed away in a cupboard over £2OO in notes. The money was discovered after the owner, who was nearly 90 years of age, had been taken away for medical treatment. Another old woman who leased her house because she was getting too old to live alone., and who was supposed to l>e very poor, left in the house in an old unlocked box £BOO worth of bearer bonds which she had evidently forgotton all about. Tbc box was a very old one and the bonds were only discovered by accident before it was intended to put it awav with a lot of other old rubbish.