A Wanganui school has suffered potentially tens of thousands of dollars of damage after vandals broke a water pipe and flooded one of the buildings.
The Maori language school - Te Kura Kaupapa Maori O Tupoho - in Cross St, Castlecliff, was vandalised on Tuesday night when someone jumped on the roof.
"They have gone on the roof and started kicking things about, then they hit one of the pipes going into the building. It burst the water pipe inside," said chairman of the board of trustees Hayden Potaka.
Yesterday morning, staff, firefighters and locals were ankle-deep in water as they began the clean-up.
Mr Potaka said the school server, which cost $20,000, was damaged and the assessor said it might need to be replaced.