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Otago Witness, Issue 4029, 2 June 1931, Page 70

The English golfer, whose ball was conveniently holed for him by a Manchester earthquake, has a Christchurch parallel, although the game was billiards. Four well-known Christchurch men were playing snooker at the Canterbury Club, and one of them had played the red ball ever so slowly, but with sufficient strength, as he thought, to reach the pocket. It just touched the side of the jaw, but did not go in. The player moved away, and his opponent was getting into position to pot the red when it fell im “Who stamped?” said ou player. “It must have been an earthquake,” said another, never dreaming that he was right. It was learned later that a very slight earthquake had been recorded at the precise moment the ball was hovering over a pocket. That was only a few weeks after the Napier earthquake of February' 3.