COUNCIL LIABLE
CRICKET BALL DAMAGE
NOVEL CASE DECIDED
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Mr E. Page, S.M., gave judgment for £l6 8s 9d in favor of Mrs F. L. Andrews, shopkeeper, of Tinakori road, against the City Council in respect of a plate glass window which was broken by a cricke’Vupl hit from Anderson Park. the City Council amount torEr ss. The wicket is 65yds. from thp road, and the road is 30ft. below the ground. The wicket has been used for 25 years, and balls are frequently hit into the street. The same shop was frequently been struck and a window was broken previously. Balls have also hit and damaged neighboring buildings, and passers-by are endangered, it is estimated that about two balls are sent over every Saturday on an
average. All these facts-were commented on by the magistrate, who said the park was 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 close to the road, and the council was responsible.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18585, 20 December 1934, Page 14
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