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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 62, 6 December 1907, Page 3

A representative of the "Marlborough Herald was shown a most ingenious moneybox by Sergeant-Major. Mason recently. It was the device of a boy, a lad of about 14, who had by means of a process of chipping with a penny at the side of a common lemonade bottle, cut a' hole through the thick glass in ono of the dents which keeps tho marble in the neck, and at tho time the bottle was the safe custodian of coins amounting to 3s. The method of "opening" the curious money-box is evidently to drop it 011 the floor from a height of not less than sft., or to give the novel "bank' a smart tap with a hammer, having duo regard, of course, to the safety of one's fingers, but littlo regard to the future usefulness bf the bottle. It was the ingenuity • displayed in the conception of the money-saving "device, however, which lent interest to the curiosity. Inventive genius is evidently not lacking in the' rising generation, ,