Jogging Ban In Gardens
Joggers are forbidden in the Christchurch Botanic Gardens under a by-law which prohibits “anything calculated to offend or annoy the public in the limits of the park.”
Mr H. G. Gilpin, the City Council’s director of reserves, said yesterday that the bylaw was designed to stop harriers running through the gardens and perhaps knocking over someone.
Mr Gilpin was replying to a complaint from a jogger, Mr R. Davies, who said that he and four companions had been using a path in the gardens past the kiosk and across the bridge into Hagley Park, but they had been stopped by a council employee recently. They had been using the path through the gardens last year and for about six weeks this year, Mr Davies said, and seldom saw anyone else in the gardens at 5 p.m.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31989, 16 May 1969, Page 10
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