INJURED WHILE PIGHUNTING
> WELLINGTON MAN SUFFERS BULLET WOUND Bi Telegraph.—press association. , Blenheim, October 3. While shooting pigs in Pelorus, Gordon Buckman, of Wellington, was shot in the arm by a .44 soft-nosed bullet. It entered liis'forearm, inflicting a very nasty wound, and appears to have travelled’ right along the forearm and out through the hand Buckman, who yas brought in to the Wairau Hospital by his brother, G. Buckman, is an old Havelock boy now residing in Wellington. It is understood that he was on a shooting expedition with a party of Wellington friends, but details are meagre.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 8
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98INJURED WHILE PIGHUNTING Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 8, 4 October 1927, Page 8
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