Swastika shock at primary school
VANDALS who caused thousands of dollars of damage at a primary school also left a swastika of tyres and stole a Maori flag.
The attack at New Plymouth’s Moturoa School, which has a roll of 102, horrified staff so much they kept it from the students for fear of upsetting them.
The most disturbing part of the attack was a huge swastika symbol out of about 46 tyres in the school’s field and the theft of the school’s Tino Rangatiratanga flag while the New Zealand national flag was left flying, which principal Delwyn Riding said was ‘‘pretty interesting’’.
Part of a swimming pool fence was snapped and a new cover worth more than $1900 ripped.
Riding said she didn’t tell the children at first because it would just upset them, as they currently didn’t use the pool area.
‘‘But once I wrote in the newsletter about what had happened, the kids were absolutely shocked.’’
She said the parents had offered a lot of support, including an electrician who volunteered his time to fix the TV aerial.