VANDALS’ WORK

Hokitika Guardian, 31 March 1917, Page 3

VANDALS’ WORK

A correspondent writes to the “New Zealand Herald” as follows :—“A few days ago I visited my son’s section at Riverheai—he is at Hornchurch, having been wounded in the Somme battle —and as a description of what I saw there may be ins'ructive to recruits leaving New Zealand, I send you some details. I must first of all cay, however, that he left without making any special provision for having h ; s section looked alter, inertly closing the gate behind him. Well, the first thing I noticed wn.s that iho gate was wide open. N*xt I found (rat the wires barb and plain—had been taken off.a'ad away from about ten chains of the boundary fence. Then the whare —it was only a poor little shack —where he was going to live the live of a pioneer, was completely dismantled and the material carried away. Even the few poor tools and pots and pans had been tskeD, making a clean sweep Now I thiuk the above conveys a ieison that even ha who runs m.y read, and hope it may bo taken to heart by thQ*e about to leave in future Expeditionary Forces.”