DETAILS OF DAMAGE

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 221, 12 May 1932, Page 5

DETAILS OF DAMAGE

(Press Assn.;

NEARLY TWO HUNDRED PLATE GLASS WINDOWS SMASHED evidences.of haste

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WELLINGTONT Wednesday. _ The widows smashecL in Lamhton Quay and Willis^Street numbered-169, and the loss i? astjjpaten ^t approxj-. matelv £2000. | The aeaviest losers were Messrs. ICirkcaldie and Stains, eleven out of 24 large windows faeing Lamhton Quay being broken. The damage is , estimated at £300, and is eovered by • 'a special riot insurance policy. Five of' these windows had only small holes caused by stones. Among the missilss picked up were a pram wheel, a motor radiator cap, a garhage tin lid, an iron bolt and a spanner. ' '• The windows were cleared of stoek, but are being re-dressed to-day. The DvI.C. lost four windows out of 18. The secretary of this company went out into the street to remonstrate with the smashers, but was set upon by a woman (with a stick) and a mob of angry men, and by the time he had fought his way back into the building he had reeeived cuts and bruises. Neither firm lost goods. Tobacconists' Window Looted The Wairarapa- Farmers' Cooperative Association lost four large windows, the damage being estimated at £70, which is eovered by insur- . arice. The main losers, so far as looting was concerned, appear to he Armits, Ltd., tobacconists, in Lamhton Quay, the mob helping itself to tobacco, pipes, and other goods on disnlay. The loss has not been estimated, but the firm carried a special insurance. ' In Manners Street nineteen windows were broken, including four in Schneideman's premises. Messrs James Smith, drapers, lost one window. . In general the premises that suffered in all three streets have boarded up their windows, but some have merely patched them where the glass had not completely gone. The nature of the damage bears witness all through of the haste with which it was committed.