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VANDALISM IN GARDENS
… the following quotation from the monthly report of the Curator (Mr. E. W. Bick), to the City Council: “There has been considerable wilful damage caused by vandalism recently. Two automatic machines were forced open, and two locks forced, one of the latter being on the animal enclosure. Eight monkeys were liberated, and a great deal of trouble was caused in catching them. If the object was theft, it may be pointed out that any person removing an imported animal from the Botanic Gardens, a quarantine area, in addition to prosecution for theft, could be charged with a breach of the quarantine regulations, and would be liable to a heavy penalty.”
Brisbane Courier, 1933
Norman Lindsay stormed into the sunroom at Springwood. Rose Lindsay looked up, startled. She was
