MONEY GOES BEGGING.

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20273, 16 August 1937, Page 3

MONEY GOES BEGGING.

£73,G19 AT DD'.D LETTER CFFJCL Australians in I In? short spare oi' t months wviv negl lei'll t abnlll Ihr money they put in letters Ilia I £73.01 •' was rero\cred I'rnni among llir cn *elopes srnl l.i tin* Head l.rttrr U Hire. ■: t: I there's n.tilling r.\l raonlinarv iboul I Ik* I; see wind else they lor . • I . The Slat.* Lottery ofllee is looking or tlir \v nners of £.*300 in prizes, anging from £C> to £|ou. II is not tlir fault of llir I,idler? • flirt' that tlir nionry is nol rollerled. Many lollers have brrn wrillen in rn loavours to Iraro tlir wimirrs. Surh rttrrs average .">0 for eaeli lot lory. Kvery year the Commonwealth uov •rninent Cazolte publishes a list n! banking arcounls containing amounts >ver £1 transferred by the Common wealth Savings Hank to its unrla'me-* depositors' fund. The last gazelle showed llial ahoib •.’.'too people had forgotten bankiiuv •.rrounts ranging from £1 I • more than £ 1000. Thousands of others forgot amounts under £ 1. There is the raivless person who •eft a bundle of I'.nii in md--s in a Sydney tram: the woman who left her fur roat. Valued at £ - .C>O. in a Sydney train: people who forgot h> pirk up a bundle of £ I Oil in no! rs. rases of diamonds and opals, and hTI behind diamonds, rings and valualdrs of ail kinds in trains and Iranis. I * Curia;mo.| winning loir t rk.-ls at ' IhC Tares, valued at about £ 1000, are ] (runLinucd iu liL'.vL culumiLK

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