SOUTH ISLAND BAND CONTEST.
THE PEA RIFLE AGAIN.
CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 22. The South Island Band Association's contest opened this morning. The judge is Mr Tom. Morgan, of London, who recently judged at Ballarat. The results so far are: —B-Flat Bass, H. Philpotts, Wellington Tramways; E-Flat Bass, R. Wilson, Woolstoni
WHANG AREI, Jan. 22
As large numbers of trippers were disembarking from the harbor launch yesterday a pea rifle owned by Briggs, a local solictor, was accidentally discharged and the bullet whizzed close the head of one excursionist and pieried the forearm of Briggs' mother.
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 22 January 1912, Page 7
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94SOUTH ISLAND BAND CONTEST. THE PEA RIFLE AGAIN. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXII, Issue LXII, 22 January 1912, Page 7
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