Havelock North residents are heartily sick of the mindless vandalism by the local young drinkers leaving the Village in the early hours of the morning. Often I hear people blaming drinkers, who come in from other places, like Napier and Hastings, however I find it most unlikely that these are the “hooligans” that are responsible for continuously breaking the flowering cherry trees outside our house. These trees have been replaced four times by HDC and last weekend, the surviving tree was broken in half!  Such a waste of rate-payers money, the youthful vandals’ parents are paying for their childrens stupidity.

A cherry tree in Duart Road broken yet again!