“Lost By Poor Girl, The Sum of £2O”
MAN RETURNS MONEY GIRL’S GRATITUDE (From Our Resident Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, Wednesday. The advertisement, “Lost by poor woman, sum of £2O, is usually accepted with a disbelieving shrug by those who are sufficiently fortunate to recover such a large sum from street pavements, and ninety-nine people wpuld consider that possession is nine points of the law and leave it at that. The hundredth man turned up here the other day. A girl employed as a hotel worker met with an accident six months ago, and on coming out of hospital recently reeeived £2O compensation. As soon as she left the insurance office she lost the money in the street. The usual advertisement followed, and she received a telegram to go to a fish shop in Cuba Street, where a man handed her the bank-roll. She offered him £5, and he refused, whereat she threw five notes at his feet, and fled.
This practical gratitude of the young woman was appreciated by the finder after he recovered from his amazement.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 42, 12 May 1927, Page 1
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