BOMB-PROOF SHELTER
First One in Australia
(Received February 7, 7.30 p.m.)
Melbourne, February 7.
For the first time in the history of Australian architecture, a bomb-proof shelter has beeu incorporated in the design of a Melbourne home.
The house has a high concrete tower sunk about seven feet underground, with concrete stears leading down fronu a large central entrance hall throdgh steel-lined doors to the shelter, which will be used for storage.
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Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 114, 8 February 1937, Page 9
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