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POST OFFICE POCKET MONEY BOX.
The English Post Office Savings Banks has now chosen the pattern of pocket money-box or home safe for use by depositors to encourage thrift and st the same time lessen the routine work involved by innumerable small payments. The box, small enough to be carried in the pocket, has been designed by Mr C. O. Burns, an American, who is president of a company that has made more than three millknui home safes for use in the United -States, on the Continent, and in England. On the day on which it was known that his design had been accepted, Mr Burns was interviewed. He said: — “According to my contract with the post office, 1 am to deliver many thousands of the little safes within three months. They will all be manufactured in the Midlands by British labor. The number may be gauged from the fact that there are more than seven million deposrtons in the post office savings bank. “The box is made of steel, with a gunmetal finish. On one side will be the words ‘Post Office Savings Bank.’ Come wifi be inserted through a wide slot ,but the internal mechanism is such that, once inearted, a coin cannot possibly be abstracted, unless the key it at hand, without destroying the box.” The keys will remain in the hands of the poet office.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 22, 9 January 1911, Page 11
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