Doctor’s Surgery Damaged.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1942, Page 2

Doctor’s Surgery Damaged.

For the second time within a few months, Dr Hughes Steele, of 166 Willis Street, Wellington, had deliberate damage done at his surgery by visiting servicemen last night. Shortly before 8 p.m. a valuable engraved glass panel in the main door of the premises was smashed. This glass panel was the work of an artist, and is irreplaceable. Dr Steele was rather severely assaulted by intruders about three months ago, still suffers from an injury to a hand, and received no redress. Last night, while he was upstairs, two servicemen were seen to approach the door, deliberately smash the panel, and saunter casually down the street. The glass was shattered by a bottle. Dr. Steele immediately informed the police and two military police attached to the visiting servicemen subsequently arrived. He remonstrated with them on the point that this was the second time he had suffered, for no reason at all, from “thuggery” of this nature. He states that their reply to him was abusive.