DEATH ON FARM.
Per Press Association. WAIPUKURAU, April 6. The death occurred in tragic circumstances in the Porangahau district yesterday shortly, after midday when Herbert Eric White, aged 29, the son of a well-known settler, was found at the back of a shed on the Wangaehu station with a gunshot wound, which was revealed as the cause of death at the inquest last evening before Mr T. Hobson, J.P. The verdict was that death was caused by means of a gunshot wound self-inflicted while in a depressed state of mind. The evidence showed that deceased suffered from spinal meningitis when aged 15 and had never fully recovered.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 108, 6 April 1934, Page 8
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