BATHING POOL MISHAP
£2,500 DAMAGES AWARDED. Damages of £.3.500 were awarded at Lewes Assizes recently to Robert George Higgs, a confectioner and cafe proprietor, of Hastings, against the Hastings Corporation, in respect of an accident at the corporation bathing pool. ' It was stated that Higgs went to bathe in the new bathing pool at St. Leonards in July last year. In the pool was a ball Sft in diameter, provided for the amusement of bathers. Another swimmer, who had clambered on top of the ball fell off, and struck Higgs on the neck. He was seriously injured, and as a, result had a permanent stiffening of the neck, which prevented 'him attending his I business as usual. It was claimed I that the accident occurred through the ball tilting, and that it should have been so moored as to prevent tilting. On behalf of the corporation it was ■ stated that since the bathing pool was opened last summer hundreds of I thousands of people had patronised ; it, and this was the first accident. I A stay of execution was granted 1 pending consideration of an appeal. 1
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Greymouth Evening Star, 4 September 1934, Page 2
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