A TALL OFFER.
TO COMMONWEALTH BANK. (Received 15, 10.50 a.m.) New York, Aug. 14. An amusing incident revealing the acuteness of American business enterprise has just been disclosed in connection with plans for the establishment of a Commonwealth Bank agency here. When the fact was published in the local press. enterprising real estate brokers apparently wished to forestall competition among those desirous of providing quarters for the agency. One individual wirelessed. Mr Armitage , aboard the Tahiti offering to sell them a well-located skycraper 20 storeys high for slightly over 5,000 000 dollars. It is unclerstood that the agency’s plans call for a more modest beginning—namely only a few rooms.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 15 August 1927, Page 5
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111A TALL OFFER. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVII, Issue 206, 15 August 1927, Page 5
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