MEANNESS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 555, 7 January 1929, Page 1

MEANNESS

NOT even thanks for PORTER WHO FOUND £4OO

VfEAN . . . Some people seem to have an infinite capacity for meanness. Recently a railway porter at Auckland discovered the meanest woman in New Zealand. One morning some weeks ago the porter found a bag lying under a seat in the Limited after the passengers had left the train. Hs discovered that it contained £4OO, mostly in sovereigns and half-tovereigns, with a few American gold coins and a little silver. Also in the bag was a quantity of jewellery arid a larger quantity of txpansive clothes. No one returned that day to claim the valuables ana they lay ir* the lost luggage office at the Auckland Railway Station for three days. Meanwhile a telegram was sent to an address in Palmerston North, evidently the address at which the owner of the bag had been staying. Some days later the owner of the bag arrived at the Auckland lost*luggagc> office to claim her property. She calmly walked away with her valuables and has never even thanked the porter for finding them.

Nor did she offer to reward him for his honesty. Mean . • • Aek that railway porter! And only last week a woman who lost £2OO in notes rewarded the Poneonby tramwayman who found it by presenting him with a miserable 1s 6d.