Police are investigating after a portaloo burned to the ground in broad daylight in Hastings.
The untimely end to a plastic-housed portable toilet came about 4pm on Sunday when a suspected vandal's fire was discovered against a concrete wall in a parking and storage area behind Kiwibank and other businesses at the corner of Queen and Market streets.
A firefighter said that by the time crews arrived from the Hastings station there was nothing left of the latrine apart from a disc of blackened blue plastic on the ground.
A member of the public had used an extinguisher to put out the fire.
Firefighters did not know how the fire had started but it was being investigated by police.