TO PROTECT THE ZOO.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 73, 26 March 1923, Page 4

TO PROTECT THE ZOO.

YOUNG CITIZENS ENLISTED,

EXTHUSIASTIC VANDAL HUNtfcfc^

The charging of 6evernl boys tt tin Juvenile Court on Saturday with break, ing into the City Council office at,th# zoo was referred to this morning by tlis Mayor. Mr. Gunson explained that t__ office in question was a small clerk-M. works office, used during the work of putting the zoo grounds in Order. K lt;. not the office where the zoo takings an kept," said Mr. Gunson. "As a matt« of fact no money is left at the zoo frota One day to another."

"The recent vandalism at the -too," te. marked the Mayor, "has led the council to enlist the special services Of the Wli« Constables for the detection of the taj. prits, and this evidently has had ag exemplary effect. The council has alto approached all the educational authorities, boy Bcouts, and the Young Citizeni" League. All these organisations are taking up the matter very cordially, hiving promised to help the council all they can in measures to check this larrikin, ism. The council has always fcetn of opinion that these depredations h»ve been the work of a relatively small group Of larrikins, who need exemplary punish, ment. No general charge has been mad* against the youth of the city as a waelt*