VANDALISM.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1195, 2 August 1911, Page 4

VANDALISM.

BUOY AND LIFE-LINES STOLEN.

One would not suppose that any members of tho public would under any circumstances be temp tod to steal such articles as life-buoys and life-lines placed in a Dublic place for the savins; of life, yet Mr. Robert Fletcher, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board, states that the board's property on suburban wharves has been subject to a form of vandalism for some little time past, and that if the perpetrators are caught it is intended to make a severe example of them. , "I cannot understand," said Mr. Fletcher, "anyone being mean enough to do what' lies been done lately. A lifebuov placed in a handy position on tho'Seatoun Wharf, for case? of emergency on' tho wharf or adjacent beach, was"taken"froth" its place and cut. to pieces. We are on the trade of some of tho pieces, and if we can find the vandal, woa bctido him.

"That is not-all, I am ssrry to say." added the chairman of the biard. "A hnnd-rnir on the stops of the Rona'Bay Wharf has b°en entirely removed,. and not content with the rail, the thieves have taken the post which supported it. 1 have just, been the rounds with the board's engineer, and I can tell you I fool very hot about this business. It is bad enough (o be accused at times of not providing life-savin? appliances, but to have them destroyed or stolen when they are supplied is really too bad."