WANTON MISCHIEF.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 9 September 1930, Page 15

WANTON MISCHIEF.

SCHOOL REQUISITES DAMAGED. (PEE»» ASSOCIATION TELiEG-RAM) WELLINGTON, September 8. Acts of vandalism were perpetrated at the Mount Cook infant school during .the week-end. When the caretaker called she found that the school had been entered by a window. Every room had been entered and every cupboard broken open. Crepe paper, with which the children were taught in the kindergarten, was strewn about, and books and papers were thrown on the floors. Desks, tables, and tablecloths, and the private property fi teacher* were disarranged. A tin of varnish had been poured in streaks all over the floor. In the teachers' room three cupboards had been broken open, the tea things and accessories mixed up, and f reach chalk thrown over the cupboards, chairs, cushions, curtains, and mantelpiece. A large packet of shellac, used for varnish making, was spread over the floors and furniture. In the babies' room were several small drums, and the skfns on both ends of every one were •'smashed in. TYRES SLASHED. (PUBS ASSOCIATION -T r T>V i AUCKLAND, September 8. All the tyres on seven motor-lorries in the garages of Newdick Bros., produce merchants, wore cut through on Saturday night. Three of the firm's four garages ax® -without doors. Ten other lorries standing near.; the front of the garages in the touched. : The proprietors have M idea of the motive.