WOUNDED MAN'S PLUCK.
RABBIT SHOOTING MISHAP. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WAIPUKURAU, Monday. Returning from rabbit shooting yesterday. Robert- White, aged 20 years, was carrying a shotgun suspended by a cord across his shoulders. The gun was loaded, ibut the trigger \ya,s apparently -safe. When White mounted Mis bicycle the cord .broke, allowing the gun to fall on the roadway arid causing an explosion. 1 Pellets entered the young mane right forearm.' He pluckily mounted lm machine and rode some distance to a residence and was then conveyed to hospital. An examination showed that no bones were broken, but there is a nasty lacerated wound.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 237, 7 October 1930, Page 10
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