WILFUL DAMAGE.
TO STATE HOUSES. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 28. The contractors at the Mirmar State housing work have had some trouble with marauders carrying off ends of timber for firewood, and occasionally longer pieces of greater value, but Thursday night was the first occasion of wilful" damage to any of the buildings. A cottage was attacked .apparently with an axe, three window sashes being hacked about. The foreman considers it was done by children, but this view is not shared by some of the workmen, who take the view that it was done by adults, and some think it a mode of revenge upon the caretaker for being prevented from removing timlier, or by someone tdying to get in, though the damage is beyond the range of the latter theory.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 2
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132WILFUL DAMAGE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 230, 28 August 1937, Page 2
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