ANOTHER SCHOOL BURGLARY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 111, 4 February 1919, Page 6

ANOTHER SCHOOL BURGLARY

CLYDE QUAY SCHOOL INVADED,

During the holiday recess burglarious marauders have been at work- m the schools of Wellington to some purpose. It will be remembered that early in December the Girls'. College was broken into and a sum of money••, belonging to the school funds stolen. Last week it was reported to the College governors that the .Wellington College Observatory had been broken into, and a good deal of wanton' destruction had been done. During last week Mr. William Foster, headmaster of the Clyde Quay School, on visiting his loom in the school, found that the locks of the drawers in his desk had .been forced open by some instrument and the desk thoroughly ransacked; also, a large school cujjjioard fitted with book-shelves, and containing books and papers and odds and ends, had been forced open and its contents strewn on the floor. Mr. Foster, who at once informed the police, states that as far as l.e knows nothing is missing. No money had been' left in the school, and that, it would seem,. was what the thief was ofter. . The deep impress of. a. jemmy or narrow chisel, used as a lever, is plainly visible on the front part of the forced drawers near the lccks.

It is a curious coincidence that these somewhat purposeless burglaries coincide with the destruction and theft of instruments in the Meteorological Station at Pipitea Point.