FATAL END TO GAME OF PING PONG.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 August 1930, Page 6

FATAL END TO GAME OF PING PONG.

UNUSUAL FACTS RELATED IN COURT CASE. WANGANUI, Last Night. _ "The circumstances relating to this case are of an unusual and extraordinary nature,” said Mr W. J. Treadwell, in opening a case at the Arbitration 'Court this afternoon in which £IOOO wap claimed from the Y.M.C.A. by Donald Dunn Milligan as a result of the death of his foster-father in 1929. Counsel explained that deceased had been secretary of the Y.M.C.A. at Wanganui. He had had a free hand as to what games should be played at the institution and the boys had an arrangement by which the winner of a game of ping pong was to kick the loser on the buttocks, one kick for each losing point. Deceased, Milligan, in September, 1929, played a game with one boy, saying prior to the. contest that the winner would be entitled to exact the usual penalty. Milligan lost 13 to 10. He told the boy to kick him three times. The boy at first demurred but finally did so, unfortunately with the result that Milligan received certain injuries of which he died. y Milligan was insured with the New Zealand Insurance Company, by the Y.M.C.A. against accident. Argument proceeded as to whether the case was allowable as the stipulated six months hid expired before the action was taken. The case was not taken any further for the present, Mr Justice Frazer reserving his decision on the point.