FRESH VANDALISM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 28, 27 October 1937, Page 4

FRESH VANDALISM

Senseless Act of Damage at Theatre From time to time, and with a frequency that is most regrettable, examples of vandalism in borough parks and other public places have been reported to the Hastings Borough Council. Usually there is some actual gain to the offending party but in the laiest ineident reported officials are at a complcte loss to understand the underlying niotive for the destruction. Overnight someone entered the public couveuiences at the Municipal Theatre and there wrenched off a portiou of the chromiuin-plated piping which had been let-in in the tiliug for the purpose of providing a water' spray. To wrench the piping it was necessary to use considerable force with some lever or other instrument. But tlie mystifying part of this wanton destrnction is that not a single part of the piping is missing; even the screws and the wedges were not taken, "One can understand that the person who removed the wooden seat frame from Windsor Park could make use of it in a summer house, and that the flowers and plants taken from ' tlie borough parks may give some pleasuiA or deligkt to those who took them,'* said an official this morning, ''but why anyone should want to break down the piping and do this sort of thing I cannot understand. It seems so sense. less."