Vandals wreck research crop
| PA Auckland Vandals have caused thousands of dollars worth of damage at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research’s Otara Crop Research Division. Already this year the Alexander Crescent centre has been broken into seven times. Last year 60 per cent of the division’s crops were destroyed by intruders. But the six-year struggle against the vandals — thought to be mainly local children — will end soon. The division is to move to a new headquarters in Pukekohe, an upheaval partly dictated by the destruction.
One of the Otara section’s major projects, to propagate new strains of maize and sweetcorn, has been badly damaged by vandalism. Children have made huts in the sweet corn crops. AH windows at Alexander Crescent are now covered with netting. Other worries for staff have included the theft of 500 V fuses, and a carburettor from a French tractor. Repeated attempts to interest local school children in the division’s work by taking them on conducted tours and giving them plots to grow crops themselves have done nothing to halt the vandalism.
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Press, 8 July 1976, Page 3
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