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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2668, 26 August 1930, Page 6

FATAL END

GAME OF PING PONG UNUSUAL FACTS (Per Press Association). Wanganui, August 2d. “The circumstances relating to this case are of ; 111 unusual and extra-ordin-ary nature,” said Air At. J. Treadwell, in opeuing a pise at the Arbitration Court this afternoon in which £IOOO was claimed from the Y.M.C.A. by Donald Dunn Milligan as a result of the death of his foster-father in 1020.

Counsel explained that deceased had been secretary of the Y.M.C. A. at Wanganui. He had had a free hand as tot what games should he played at the institution a.'id the boys had an arrangement by which the winner of a. game of ping pong was to kick tlio loser on the buttocks, one kick for each losing point. Deceased, Milligan, in September, 1929, played a game with one hoy. saying prior to the contest that tlie winner would be entitled to exact the usual penalty. Milligan lost 1 3 to 10. He told the boy to kick him three times. The boy at first demurred but finally did s o, unfortunately with the result that Milligan received certain injuries of which he died. Milligan was insured with the New; Zealand Insurance Company by the Association against accident.

Argument proceeded as tot wlietuer the ease was allowable as stipulated. Six months had expired before tlie act io u was take ll . Tlie case was liot taken any further for the present. Mr Justice Frazer reserving his decision on tlio point.