SHOOTING ACCIDENTS
Sir,—ln the North Island the other 1 day a schoolboy was accidentally s killed while examining a .22 rifle that < happened to be loaded—indoors. A 1 great deal of trouble is taken to ! render the embryo motorist relatively I innocuous to fellow users of the roads. I‘ yet little, if anything, appears to be: 1 done officially to limit the potential!-/ ties of lethal weapons as a cause of ; 1 accidents. It ought to be somebody’s ' business to ensure not only the strict- ‘ est control of the distribution of such 1 weapons but adequate instruction in € the normal safety precautions. Is the 101 l of the road,” to which such publicity is given, so very much more alarming than the toll of gun and rifle? I doubt it.—Yours, etc.,’ M.T. June 7, 1955.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27683, 13 June 1955, Page 3
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