THREE FATALITIES

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 59, Issue 23, 7 November 1938, Page 5

THREE FATALITIES

YOUNG MAN DIES OF WOUNDS. ACC ID ENT WHILE PIG HUNT IN G. COMPANION’S■ GUN; EXPLODES. < ' . I« - • (P?r Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Alan Steele Bunt, a.single man, aged 27, of Picton, was fatally shot on Saturday evening when pig-hunting at Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound. In company with two other Picton young men, Messrs Colin Wilson Borrie and Richard Mervyn Daken, Mr Bunt went by launch to a bay in Endeavour Inlet, where, shortly after landing, a wild pig was baled up by the dogs on a hillside in light bush. Mr Daken, who had a rifle, fired without effect. Mr Borrie, who was using a sawn-off .303 converted into a pistol, also failed to kill the pig. It appears that Mr Borrie was reloading his weapon when a premature explosion occurred. Mr Bunt, who was about eight yards away, was struck in the throat, the bullet emerging near the centre of his back. ?

The injured man was carried about half a mile to the beach. The police and a doctor were summoned from Picton. Mr Bunt evidently succumbed shortly after he was wounded.

A CHILD ELECTROCUTED. CONTACT 1 WITH A POWER LINE AUCKLAND, November 6. Coming into contact with an electric power lime on the top of a shed near his home at Otahuhu, a boy, Roy Arthur Taylor, age# six, was killed by a shock. His death occurred only a. short distance from his parents’ residence. The boy was playing with his brother aged nine, in a small paddock almost opposite their home. A ball which they were playing with lodged on the flat roof'of a died at the rear of a taxi garage. The younger boy clambered to the roof by ivay of a stack of timber, and a short time afterwards the other toy noticed him lying stretched out on the corrugated iron roof. The attention of a passer-by was 'Called., and he climbed to the roof and found the lad lying with one of his hands within, a few inches of a live wire which > was connected to the garage. He was dead.

GIRL KILLED BY MOTOR-CAR. DUNEDIN, November 6. A fatal accident“bfccm-red on the main road at Balclutha, vat 10 o clock last nighty . wheir : Nonie ■); Jane JohiP stone, &' girl aged ]4, was knocked doura by ah Overtaking car and kitted. The girl was walking along the road with her mother, who was uninjured.