FISHERMAN SHOT
On Way To Hospital
(N.Z. Press Association) ITERCARGILL, August 2.
A Stewart Island fisherman, Mr Lester Morris, was tonight being rushed to Kew Hospital for an emergency operation after being Shot in the stomach this afternoon. He was injured while deerstalking at Port Adventure, on the east coast of Stewart Island. The Stewart Island vessel, Kiwi, is expected to arrive at Bluff with the injured man about 2 a.m. tomorrow, Mr A. J. Ally, superintendent of the Invercargill police district, said tonight. “Apparently Morris and a companion left their fishing vessel, the Annette, to go deerstalking,” he said. “The first news we had of the shooting was about 6.30 p.m., when we were Informed by Awarua Radio. Constable M. Nicholas, of Half-Moon Bay, and Nurse R. Grimwood left on the Kiwi for the scene of the shooting soon afterwards.”
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31128, 3 August 1966, Page 18
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