A 90-year-old war veteran has been reunited with his missing life savings after police found it stashed in his house.
The $23,000 had gone missing after the Greymouth man withdrew it from a bank in the town last Friday to pay some bills.
He then went for a cup of tea at Blanchfield's Bakery nearby just after 10am, and afterwards couldn't find the envelope of money, all in $100 bills.
Police searching the man's house uncovered the money just after 2pm today, in a place that "wasn't easy to find", said police spokeswoman Barbara Dunn.
It is thought the man had hidden the money for safekeeping.
