A SPLENDID BUILDING
SYDNEY SAVINGS. BANK (Received December 14, 11 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 14. The new. Government Savings Bank in Sydney, with frontages to three main thoroughfares, and costing £I,SOO,(XXL was officially opened yesterday by the. Premier, Mr. Bavin, in the presence of 1000 representative men and women. Mr. Bavin described the bank as the second largest savings bank in the British Empire, with deposits of £70,000,000. The material used in the construction was largely polished granite. The interior of the banking chamber is most beautiful, besides being one of the largest in the world.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/PBH19281214.2.68
Bibliographic details
Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16827, 14 December 1928, Page 7
Word Count
95A SPLENDID BUILDING Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16827, 14 December 1928, Page 7
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Poverty Bay Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.