HANDBAG RETURNED
COLON TO WELLINGTON
AN UNUSUAL EXPERIENCE
WELLINGTON, January 19
To leave a (handbag containing money and papers at 'Colon and to learn some days later that it would lie returned to her at Wellington a month afterwards was the experience of a woman who reached Wellington last week from London by the Tainui. While ashore at Colon she left a handbag in a store and did not discover her loss until the Tainui was going through the canal. She did not mention the loss ot the hag to any of the ship's officers. Four days after the Tainui had lott Balboa the master received a wireless message from the master of the Karamea, which had cleared Balboa that day, also bound for New Zealand, stating that he had a handbag believed to belong to one of the Tainui’s lady passengers. There was little in the hag to identify it, and ;l . message that ft had been found was posted on the ship’s notice board. The owner claimed the bag and will have it returned to her this week. Ihe hag wa s evidently handed over to the police at Colon, who passed it on to the masier of the noxt ship bound for New Zealand.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1932, Page 6
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207HANDBAG RETURNED Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1932, Page 6
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