BROKEN WINDOWS
COUNCIL TO PAY. [PEB PBESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, December 20. Mr. Page, S.M., gave judgment for £l6/8/9 in favour of Mrs. F. L. Andrews, shopkeeper, Tinakori Road, against the City Council in respect of the plate glass window broken by a cricket ball hit from Anderson Park. The costs against the city amount to £7/5/-. The wicket in question is 65 yards from the road, and the road is 30 feet below the ground. This wicket has been used for 25 years, and balls have frequently been hit into the street. The same shop has frequently been struck. A window was broken previously. Balls have also been hit as to damage neighbouring buildings, and passersby have been endangered. It is estimated that about two balls are sent over every Saturday on the average.
All of these facts were commented on by the Magistrate, who said that the Park is vested as a reserve in the City Corporation, which prepared the wickets and let them out to the Cricket Association. In his view, the wicket was too does to the road, and the Council was responsible.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1934, Page 14
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