Stand tips up; children hurt
PA Auckland About 50 children were thrown to the ground when a stand collapsed during a circus performance at the Otahuhu primary school grounds yesterday afternoon. and the accident revived a three-year-old controversy about subsidence at the school. Eight boys and girls aged 11 were taken to hospital — suffering from cuts, bruises, and shock — after the stand suddenly lurched sideways while the proprietor of Robinson’s Family Circus (Mr S. C. Robin-
son was telling schoolchildren about circus life. Early fears that one or two of the children might have suffered serious injury were dispelled. Mr Robinson said the stand, a tiered structure about sft high and 20ft long, was of a time-tested standard design, and was bearing about a quarter of its permissible loading when it collapsed. “One leg of the stand disappeared into a hole which caused it to go sideways,’’ he said.
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