Modern Safe Deposit is Air-Water-Tight, Fire-
And Bomb Proof Aramis, Agapenor, Chile, Should Arrive Tomorrow; Ramses, Arabia Leaving The new safe deposit of "the Having left Kobe on Friday, the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China was declared open at a NM. Carthage should arrive at büoys 12-13, today at about 8.30 a.m. ceremony at 1230 p.m, yesterday by her\ passengers arriving at the Cus-Mr. R. D. Murray, the manager. In toms Jetty at about 10 am. Stop-his opening speech, Mr. Murray exping here for two days, she will sail plained the bank's need for increasing homewards on Tuesday by the way its existing services by the installaof Hongkong, Singapore, Penang, Colombo, Bombay, Aden, Port tion of this modern equipment and. by this means, offering the general Said, Malta, Marseilles, Casa-public of Shanghai a place of security blanca, Gibraltar and London. Pas-for valuables, ^A reception followed senger tender leaves the Customs the opening ceremony.
Jetty at 10.30 a.m. and will not ac-The strong room, which has been cept any heavy luggage which should specially designed to meet local needs, be delivered'to the tender at the is 65 feet long and 25 feet high, The Customs Jetty tomorrow between 2 Gelling, flooring and surrounding walls and 3 pin. Custom permits are re-are reinforced with bars of spiral quired for all nailed cases. steel of the "Chatwood Patent" type.
Local Offices of M.M. announce The main and emergency doors are that their liner Aramis arrives from supplied by the-Chatwood Safe Com-Xobe at the Shanghai & Hongkew pany, and are constructed to resist Wharf Company's Hongkew Wharf 4 ' every known method of attack by tomorrow at 7 a.m. and her passeng-burglars, including mechanical tools ers should reach the Customs Jetty such as the electric drill and cutters, at about 730 am. She sails for and even the oxy-acetylene blow torch, The two doors are the only entrances to the strong room and when they are closed the room is water-tight, air-tight, fire-proof and 1 bomb-proof, The equipment consists of 2,044 safe deposit pickers of various sizes, with satin-chrome-plated steel doors; the 4 doors need no oiling or greasing, a new feature of distinct advantage, for 1 customers run no risk of getting oil or grease on their clothes. The locker doors are fitted with special bronze dual-control safe deposit locks, each with two key holes, one for the bank's guardian key, the other for the enters key, These locks are of the latest kind and of a type hitherto i unknown in Shanghai, Steel Shelves Hongkong, Saigon, Singapore, Colom-be, Djibouti, Suez, Port Said and Marseilles on Tuesday at 4 am.
While the outgoing passengers are to embark tomorrow in the afternoon. Foreign registered mail to catch this ship should be posted before 1 p.m. ihe China registered before 230 p.m. and ordinary by 3 p.m. tomorrow.
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