Sports Ground Hazard
Sir, —Last Saturday afternoon I played Rugby on the fine ground known as Jellie Park. While this ground is indeed a good playing field, I was horrified to see a steel cover about 12 by 9, probably a water main cover, on the centre of the field. It could easily cause injury. Who is responsible, the sports body or the council concerned?— Yours, etc., SAFE FIELDS PLEASE. June 2, 1966.
[The chairman of the Waimairi County Council (Cr. O. C. Mitchell) said: “There is at Jellie Park, adjacent to the cricket wicket and on the the football field, a watering point for the wicket This has a box around it with a metal cover on top. This year, as in th e past, the lid was covered by turf and soil in order that no injury would be suffered by players using the field. However, it would appear that some person or persons have removed the protective turf cover, thus creating a danger. To avoid a recurrence of this trouble, which we have not had in other parks, the box and lid have been removed for the period of the football season and the hole filled with soil.”]
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 14
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