The entrance to the Morgan Park Hub Building in Waihī was left covered in shattered glass after an act of vandalism in the early hours of May 12.
Tennis players arrived at the community sports building on Monday morning to find glass spread across the entrance, and two large concrete paving stones resting on the floor.
A spokesperson for Sport’n’Action Waihī said the attack was “unnecessary”, and disappointing for the many sports groups and volunteers who used the hub.
“Oh, it’s just wasteful… Their time could be spent doing other community projects,” they said.
Cameras on the property show the incident occurred at 4.37am, but only caught the offender’s hand.
“They’re aware of the [camera] placement. I’m guessing they’ve cased it out or even been in there during the day.
“It’s a very strong person, because they’re thrown from a side angle, and it’s like a brick paver. It’s like a concrete paver. So it’s very heavy, and it’s possibly just been thrown with one hand with force.”
A wooden trophy case just inside the doors escaped damage – there were scrapes on the front of the case where a paver had rebounded before coming to a stop on the floor in front of it.
The offenders did not enter the building, or take anything from the premises.
Police have labelled the incident “wilful damage”.
“At this time, Police have exhausted all lines of enquiry and the matter has been filed.
“However, should any new information come to light, Police are open to reassessing the matter,” a Police spokesperson said.
Meanwhile, Sport’n’Action Waihī would now be looking into a viable replacement for the glass.
“We’ve just got two screens in there at the moment and we need to work out going forward if it will be replaced with glass or left as a harder screen – it’s not very appealing looking at it the way it is [now],” the spokesperson said.
“We just want to thank Sue Adams Glass. She came to our rescue and cleared it out and secured the doors so we were able to use it straight away – the building wasn’t closed at all.”
And the last word went to the tennis club, she said.
“They just said if a person could join tennis with that sort of power, it would be great rather than focusing on damage.”
