SAFE FROM ZEPPELINS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 3, 5 January 1916, Page 2

SAFE FROM ZEPPELINS.

The coming of the Zeppelins has resulted in a vast accumulation of Lonlon 's treasure in the saf 3 deposits and banks. Many Weat End houses have been emptied of priceless works of art, jewels, and rare and costly •-Id and silver ware, which are now : ">oing jealously guarded underground. A bank manager informed a Weekly Dispatch representative that more Mid more people were keeping their

I valuables in the special boxes reserved for customers. But though the banks had their s-hare of the rush to •lacei London's treasure in places of ,safety it was the great safe deposits •■o which the majority of people flocked, with the result that they were fillvl to an extent unique in the experience' of their custodians. One of the largest in Louder: —that 'n ChcncVry Lane —has never born, so Pull, and the last few months have Sf<v'*r];t further consignments of property. K-ch French and Belgian refuses have brought what money and valuables thev were able to savo from heir homes. Directly they .--.,-> j n England they g* straight to V «p'fe deposits rind are not satisfied until they see their goods safely in the strongrooms. Priceless pictures, precious carpets, splendrous tapestries are now lying in these rooms, and of late lawyers have been bringing their valuable documents, deeds, and bonds for safe custody. It has been estimated that there is i thousand million pounds' worth of London hidden treasure lying in the ' , V.:icery Lane Safe Deposit alone.