SHOT THROUGH NECK.
DOCTOR CUTTING HEDGE.
BOY WITH PEA-RIFLE,
(By Telegraph.—Special to "Star.")
WANGANUI, this day.
An extraordinary incident occurred yesterday at Gonville, when a wellknown resident, 3>r. Porritt, while engaged in cutting a hedge, was shot in the neck by a boy with a pea-rifle.
The boy had made the mistake of thinking that the movements were those of a bird. The pellet passed through the back of Dr. Porritt's neck, fortunately without causing serious injury.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 97, 27 April 1933, Page 8
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