VANDALS AND AN AXE
A few months ago some students of Olago University won transitory fame,or notoriety (according to the point of view) by destroying with the axe a hoarding which they thought was disfiguring the landscape. Many people agreed with the motive which led them to protest against disfiguring signs, and some secretly applauded their forcible method. Local University students neither approved nor disapproved their zeal, and Wellington people who see the disfiguring chalked advertisements all over the town to-day can understand the reason. The Wellington students did not cheer the Otago students for their attack on the vandals; because their real sympathies were with the vandals, and their admiration of vandalism has prompted them to a.chalk imitation. With children (by whom such offences are usually committed) the punishment is to take away the chalk and set the offenders to clean off the marks they have made. If Dunedin were not so far away a contingent of the Otago students whose axes made a protest against vandalism might be sent for to put the axe into the local imitators.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 6
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180VANDALS AND AN AXE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 92, 20 April 1931, Page 6
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