Maunu Primary School students from left, Nikhil Supershad, Emma Bradley, Oliver Teale, Aayden Mitchell, Shaye Johnston, Taj Roberts and Reanna Stratton with Deputy Principal Claire Turton.
The bounce has been restored to Maunu Primary School playground with the return of a trampoline mat and springs.
Thieves took the mat and springs overnight on Sunday leaving staff and students in disbelieve and then anger that someone would steal from their community.
Students at the Whangārei school were
left peering into an empty hole where the sunken tramp has been for at least 20 years providing students with playground memories.
But an appeal for the return of the gear through the Northern Advocate may have been enough to prick somebody's conscience.
One of the first students arriving for school yesterdayspotted the neatly folded mat and springs in a box just outside the school in the bus bay on Maunu Rd about 7.30am.
