WANTON DAMAGE
STATE HOUSES SUFFER 150 WINDOWS SMASHED VANDALS AT AUCKLAND (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. Wanton damage, believed to have been caused by youths and boys in the neighbourhood, has been done to a number of State houses being constructed on the Wesley Estate in Mount Albert road. About 150 windows in seven buildings were smashed in one night recently, the cost of repairing the damage being approximately £6O. The vandals responsible were not content to use merely stones, but hurled large rocks, and in one or two cases these crashed through wallboards. Metal ventilators in the walls, below the level of the floor, were also broken.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 4
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109WANTON DAMAGE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20142, 11 January 1940, Page 4
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