DANGERS OF "RINKING."
In a lecture on railway safety appliances, delivered the other day, Mr. Bramwcll had occasion to show how the interposition of a comparatively thin but clastic substance would break a man's fall. This fact is exemplified by the difference in the results of ,i tumble on the ice and on it:s asphalte substitute. In the former case the sHiFcivr picks himself tip and skims off, forgetting all aboul it by-nnd-byc ; in the other, although the Hour is by no means wholly inelastic, the consequences are often far more serioM. Broken bon.<s are quite frequent occurrences on the new skating rinks, and an inquiry was held last week into the circumst.tnces attending the death of a Government clerk, an expert skater, who cams into collision with another person and was thrown down, at the Bromley Rink on Easter Monday. He shortly afterwards began to lose the use of his limbs, and dkd in about a fortnight from concussion of the spine. Examp'es like this, and it is not singular, ought to lead to caution in the use of a healthy amusement, which, as will bo seen, is not unattended by grave danger.— lron.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 133, 23 September 1876, Page 2
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195DANGERS OF "RINKING." Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 133, 23 September 1876, Page 2
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