When Mother Plays Cricket. — One of the mothers who took part in the Wellesley College Mothers v. Sons’ cricket match, held on Kelburn Park yesterday afternoon, finds the boundary with a “wristy cover shot.” —“Dominion” photo.
Too Strong for Blowpipes.—A banker’s safe which resisted a determined attack by blowpipes in the Commonwealth Savings Bank, Sydney, recently. The thick safe, which is more than five feet high, was believed to have contained between £.36,000 and £37,000. The picture also shows cylinders, each containing oxygen and acetylene brought along by the safe-breakers, who made three separate attempts on the impenetrable steel.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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99When Mother Plays Cricket.—One of the mothers who took part in the Wellesley College Mothers v. Sons’ cricket match, held on Kelburn Park yesterday afternoon, finds the boundary with a “wristy cover shot.” —“Dominion” photo. Too Strong for Blowpipes.—A banker’s safe which resisted a determined attack by blowpipes in the Commonwealth Savings Bank, Sydney, recently. The thick safe, which is more than five feet high, was believed to have contained between £.36,000 and £37,000. The picture also shows cylinders, each containing oxygen and acetylene brought along by the safe-breakers, who made three separate attempts on the impenetrable steel. Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 148, 19 March 1931, Page 7
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