FARMER FATALLY SHOT.
GUN WAS CAUGHT IN FENCE. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WANGANUI, Sunday. With a gunshot wound in his chest, a Rapanui farmer, Mr. David James Phillips, aged 54. was found dead by his wife in a paddock on his farm this afternoon. His body was lying beside a fence in which his gun was caught. Mr. Phillips had farmed in the Rapanui district for the last 20 years.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 5
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