INJURED HIS PLAYMATE.
.BOY, FEARING CONSEQUENCES, LEAVES HOME. iBY TELEGRAPH—PRF«S ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON, March 6. A 14-year-old boy, who feared the consequences of having shot a girl playmate in the eye with an air gun, left his home at Muritai on Friday. He was seen on Saturday afternoon, when he made for the bush. Yesterday morning he set off across the harbour ip a seven-foot boat, pursued' by his father and the police. He was captured, suffering slightly . from shock and exhaustion. The girl was admitted to hospital to be examined by X-ray yesterday.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 6 March 1928, Page 9
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