DAMAGE AT NURSERY

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 192, 11 May 1937, Page 11

DAMAGE AT NURSERY

Pots and Trays Thrown to Ground By Telegrapti—Press Association. Auckland, May 10. A scene of wanton destruction awaited a nurseryman at Hay’s Nurseries in Remuera when he arrived at the premises to commence work after the week-end this morning. Every one of the three glasshouses now in use had been entered, pots had been thrown from the benches to the ground and broken, trays of young plants ready for delivery had been tipped out, and between 50 and 60 large palms in pots, housed in the fernery, had been broken. The premises were last visited by the nurseryman on Saturday morning when everything, was in order. When he arrived to-day, however, he found the doors of the office and glasshouses open and in one house a large number of pots and plants had been thrown on to the ground and broken. In another a glass door had been broken and about 150 trays of plans and seeds had been lifted from benches and thrown on to the floor, their contents being tipped out. Some of the trays had been forced through slots in the houses on to the ground outside, cracking the glass. A tomahawk was found in a passageway between the packing-shed and office, and it is thought that entry was forced with the aid of this instrument. The office also was entered and thoroughly ransacked, but as far as is known nothing was removed. From footprints of sandshoes and naked feet left on some of the benches it is thought that the vandalism is the work of young boys, who made practically a clean sweep of the nursery some time on Sunday afternoon. The principal of the firm, Mr. A. Thomas, said it was very difficult to estimate the amount of damage, but it was considerably in excess of £5O.

“I shall be very pleased to ensure that the view of your federation on educational matters will receive adequate consideration and, whenever possible, your suggestion for representation will be sympathetically considered,” stated, a letter from the Minister of Education, Hon. P. Fraser, read at the annual meeting of the Wellington School Committee.and Educational Federation last night. LEADER PAGE—