STATE HOUSES
VANDALISM AND THEFT APPEAL BY MINISTER (P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. ,\ ‘Some few days ago I made a statement regarding damage suffered on State housing projects as the result of vandalism and theft that has become so common," said the Minister of Works, the Hon. R. Semple, to-day. “In an endeavour to minimise the loss occasioned in this: < manner on State housing contracts in Wellington and Hutt, particularly over the,Rollday period, builders, in co-operation with the Housing Construction Division, have arranged for jobs to be adequately patrolled. Even patrol may hot afford complete protection, and where protection is> not at hand,, but theft or mischief is being committed, it behoves citizens to protect their own. property. It is well known that a lot of damage suffered is the work of irresponsibles and uncontrolled youngsters. Let none of us therefore wink at the mischievous pranks of our youth as' they affect material things, but stop and admonish them so that they can grow into adolescence with proper respect for the property and rights of other people," the Minister added, ,
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 62, 22 December 1945, Page 6
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