STUDY IN CONTRASTS

Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 65, 9 December 1938, Page 3

STUDY IN CONTRASTS

A sharp contrast between the methods used in Seattle and in London in the transport of bullion to and from banks was drawn by Mr. E. Wood, secretary of the Otago Importers and Shippers’ Association, during an address at the annua! meeting of the association in Dunedin recently. When ho was in Seattle early this year. Mr. Wood said, he saw for the first time an armoured ear used for the carriage of large sums of money. He was so interested in the vehicle that lie studied it closely lill he saw the guard ;—eriug suspiciously at him through a slit in Hie rear of’ the ear, and thereupon moved on. Later, in the West laid of Loudon, he saw an ordinary carrier’s van standing outside a bank and several men carrying burs of gold on their shoulders into the building. There was no guard, and not even a policeman was in sight. Hie only oflieial present being a bank clerk', who cheeked the bars of gold as the.v wore carried past him. The speaker said he was even permitted to hold one of the ingots of gold, valued at about £2OOO, in his own hands, a remarkable contrast with the suspicion which his innocent interest had aroused in Seattle.