Girl Vandals Damage Flower Beds In Gardens

Chronicle (Levin), 22 November 1949, Page 4

Girl Vandals Damage Flower Beds In

Gardens

♦ Sureljt tHfe fiidst .t>labant iiistance pf vsifitialisiii ocfclirVfed In ihe Miinicipal gardens,. Levin, on Saturday afternoon "when a large bed of flowers WaS ruihlfessly smashe'd and naitened dowh by ihe dfeliberatfe a'etions of twb girls, agfed about 10 ot 11. Ndt oontent thfe girls then. played havoc with thfe lity pqhd, pUllirig oiii thfe pldnts and stleWing theih dll over the gra§s. OVfer a, liuridted Of these magnificent water lijies Were foUnd by the gardener. The damagfe is irreparable. i Repbftihg this tb thfe LfeVih Borough Council at its meeting last night, the , -Mayor, Mr% H. B. Butdekiri, said that it was a trdgedy that the minds of sbnle yoUng people today were so warped as4to allow ' them . to gfet pledSure oui of bfeUtiiig fiblvri £ Bed: b!

lowers in that manner. i The mater, he added, was. being piaced .n thfe hands bf the Poliee. Tiie gardfen aRfected was at the pase df the War Memorial and the Mayor said that it appeared as if some one had run up and down it. The high steriis of the plants, which were in full and glorious blbom.^had beeh trattipled 'down and fiowers scattfered everywhere. Nbt bnly did thfe children piill out a large number of water lilies from the pond, but. they pulled the flower buds off ihe rest, which rheant that their fibwering season was finished for some time to come. A woinan had been entering the gardens ahd had actually seen the childrefl rdlling abbiit the beds. They had qiiickly hin away. The gardener was busy this morning attfempting to repair the dAinagfe.