PAYROLL THEFTS
Protection For Clerks
(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.) SYDNEY, August 4. From the middle of this month, boys under 18 and all girls and women taking more than £5O in cash to or from a bank for their employer in Victoria must be escorted or
go by taxi. The Commercial Clerk’s Wages Board of Victoria has made this decision to protect women and junior clerks against hold-ups. Soon after protests by unions about the dangers of having juniors going alone to banks, a girl had a cash bag snatched from her hand in a busy Melbourne street.
It is understood that the New South Wales branch of the clerks’ union will seek similar safeguards. The New South Wales union estimates that at least 1000 of its junior members carry big payrolls in the city streets at least once a week. Last week, a 19-year-old clerk at Liverpool had a payroll of £2BOO stolen from him when two armed men held him at gunpoint and forced him to drive to an isolated spot where they took the money.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30511, 5 August 1964, Page 22
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