Road signs smashed
Vandals in the Methven district knocked down or smashed at least a dozen road signs, markers, and letterboxes, early on Sunday.
It seemed that the signs were damaged in the same way — a vehicle approached them siowly and then knocked them down. The. bigger “stop” and “give way” signs were uprooted but others were broken.
Two.parking signs, a pair of pedestrian "zebra” poles in, McDonald Street, road ea belli sides of thg
Methven-Mount Hutt Road, a “stop” sign and two directional arrows on the Waimarama-Mount Hutt Road intersection, ~ two “stop” signs and a /‘give way” sign on the Backtrack Road and two mailboxes were attacked. - Constable D. Back of the Methven police, said that such vandalism was a danger, especially to; the many travellers-in the area yesterday. ' • “A . serious accident could pecyv because of their re, moval” h® Mid, __
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