{"id":533136,"date":"2026-07-19T03:59:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533136\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T03:59:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T03:59:11","slug":"cold-classrooms-await-after-thieves-target-schools-copper-pipes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/533136\/","title":{"rendered":"Cold classrooms await after thieves target school’s copper pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The theft of piping used to heat classrooms at Bulls School has left a Rangitikei District councillor concerned that children returning to school on Monday will suffer.<\/p>\n

The primary school was the target of copper theft about 10.15am on Saturday.<\/p>\n

In a social media post<\/a>, Bulls School said the theft had caused “significant disruption” to the school.<\/p>\n

Councillor Paul Sharland, who has lived in the town for more than 30 years, said he was disgusted.<\/p>\n

“It’s pretty sad that somebody can come along and pinch something from a primary school – I mean, pinch anything from anywhere really, but especially from a primary school,” he said.<\/p>\n

Sharland said it had been cold in the town with a couple of “quite bad” frosts.<\/p>\n

“As a Bulls resident, I’m quite disgusted to hear that sort of thing’s happening, especially at a primary school, and our poor kids are going to have to suffer if they’re going to go back to a cold classroom.”<\/p>\n

Bulls School has asked the community for help in identifying the two people in the post.<\/p>\n

“If you recognise either of these individuals or the vehicle they were using, please contact New Zealand Police and quote case number P067035575.<\/p>\n

“Every piece of information could make a difference.<\/p>\n

“Thank you for helping us bring those responsible to justice.”<\/p>\n

Police said it had received a report, and the information provided was being assessed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The theft of piping used to heat classrooms at Bulls School has left a Rangitikei District councillor concerned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-533136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}