WANTON VANDALISM
relief .shelters visited. CHRISTCHURCH, June 13
During the week-end welters built by relief workers on the Kills were visited ...r.d the contents were completely ruined. Some 500 cups .were smashed, thirty billies were; battered. shapeless with picks ; and twenty pounds oi sugar were mixed together with water ,and then scattered over the ground. The shelter’s extend from the Sign of the Tukalic to bepaki and whoever was responsible for the damage must have walked a considerable distance. The shelters have been put up in stone, by the men as places where they may have .a meal out of the wind and also where their utensils can he stored, and on occasions they specially leave fresh water in the billies with wood handy in c-se parsing hikers should feel inclined to boil some water for a cup of tea.
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Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1933, Page 5
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140WANTON VANDALISM Hokitika Guardian, 14 June 1933, Page 5
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