GENERAL CABLES
MOTOR CYCLE RECORD.
[United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this nay at 10.30 a.m.) BERLIN, September 30. Sincock of Victoria, riding a motor cycle, won'the live hundred C.C. race, also the fastest time with an average ol ninety-six miles hourly, over 240 miles.
THE COMMONWEALTH BANK
STRONG ROOMS DESCRIBED
(Received this day s* noon.) ’ LONDON, September 30,
Any burglar rash enough to attempt to force the strongroom of the Commonwealth Bank’s new premises in London will soon abandon tlie job for the room, twentyfive feet square an nine feet high, is steel lined and surrounded on all sides by twenty-one inches of concrete, reinforced by twisted steel called ta.ngbar. It has two steel doors, eighteen inches thick, weighing twelve toils made specially to resist, an oxyacetylene blowpipe and nitroglycerine which are now being constructed at Chubb'and'Sons works at Wolverhampton, where a number of bankers and business men witnessed the casting of the doors and other .processes. *
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 October 1930, Page 5
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