CLAIM FAILS.
BOY BURNED ON A CHUTE. (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Holding that as the chute had been used nine years without previous accident the St. Kilda Beach Improvement Society could not. he aware of any danger, Mr Bartholomew, SAL. gave .judgment for the Society in a case in which Rodney Carter Francis Taylor, a hoy five years of age, claimed £135 damages from the Society lor injuries sustained in December, when, on a. hot day, he received burns on the foot and buttocks. The - Magistrate said that the chute had been used by thousands without mishap, so that the Society s experience negatived the existence of any danger.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 58, Issue 195, 31 May 1938, Page 6
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