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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19803, 3 December 1938, Page 12

Contrast in Bullion HandlingA 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, in an address at the annual meeting of the association. When he was in Seattle early this year, Mr. Wood said lie saw an armoured car used for the carriage of large sums of money. He was so interested in the vehicle that lie studied it closely until he saw the guard peering suspiciously at him through a slit in the rear of the car. Later, in the West End of London, he saw an ordinary carrier's van standing outside a bank and several men carrying bars of gold on their shoulders into the building. There was no guard, and not even a policeman was in sight, the only oAicial present being a bank clerk, who checked the bars of gold as they were carried past him. The speaker was even permitted to hold one of the ingots of gold, valued at about £2OOO, in his own hands.