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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (2361)8/31/1998 10:20:00 PM
From: Thean  Read Replies (2) of 14427
 
Papaya, how long have you been in Hawaii? During WWII, burying money in the ground was a common practice. Ask one of the older Asian immigrants in Hawaii and they will probably tell you stories of buried paper money.

Here is a story from my mother-in-law. She told me during WWII her father was a rich man and he buried plenty of colonial British paper money in the ground when the Japanese invaded. During the Japanese rule he was kind of a a village chief and some people in dire straight borrowed money from him to feed their family. Well, instead of going to the bank to get the money, he would ask his acquitances to wait in the house and he went to the hill to "dig some money". There is a sad side to the story as well. When the Japanese occupation was about to end, some of his borrowed money was kindly returned but in the form of the colonial Japanese paper money instead. He was a kind and simple man so he accepted the return. Guess what? He reburied the Japanese paper money and by the time the British took over and the currency exchange grace period ran out, his Japanese money were still in the ground.

Another story. This one is closer to home and I personally witnessed it. My grandpa "buried" some British colonial money under the raised platform in the bedroom inside a tin can when he moved into his new house. The platform was a permanent one so no one could have access to it until the platform was broken and removed. After about 15 years, all was forgotten. He was ecstatic when he rediscovered his buried treasure when the worker remodeled the bedroom and had to crack open the platform. Was it exchangeable to the Ringgit after that? I don't remember but that's another story.
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