SHOOTING AT FISH
HUTT RIVfcR INCIDENT
Pleading guilty to discharging a .303 service rifle .on the Hutt River stop bank to the public danger, Henry Stephen Turvey and Thomas Henry Cooley Mclvor were each fined £2 and costs by Mr. A. M. Goulding, S.M* in the Lower Hutt Court today.
Sergeant J. W. McHolm said that when a number of boys were playing cricket in.the grounds of the Hutt
Valley High School, a bullet struck the ground nearby, and then inflicted a slight abrasion on the leg of one of the players. When approached by the police, the men at first denied any, knowledge of the charge. Later, however, they admitted firing a service rifle at a school of kahawai ia the river. The rifle was the property of the Defence Department, and had been brought home by a son of one of the defendants, a.Territorial.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11
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146SHOOTING AT FISH Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 92, 20 April 1939, Page 11
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