AMUSING INCIDENT
AMERICAN BUSINESS ACUMEN. COMMONWEALTH BANK AGENCY. OFFEB TO SELL SKYSCBAPEB. (By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright.) Beceived August 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 the 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 sent a wireless message to Messrs Armitage and Mason, who were aboard the Tahiti, offering to sell them a well-located skyscraper of 20 storeys high for slightly over 5,000,000 dollars. It is understood that the agency s plans call for a more modest beginning, namely, a building of only few rooms. —A. and N.Z. cable.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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137AMUSING INCIDENT Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVII, Issue 220, 15 August 1927, Page 7
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