SHOOTING ACCIDENT
A NELSON BOY SEVERELY INJURED '.United Press Association.) MASTERTON. This Day. Lex Squires, son of Air W. YV. Squires, dentist, of Nelson, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital suffering from a gunshot wound. The bullet entered Ids chest and penetrated the shoulder blade. He was accompanying E. Hart, son of Brigadier-General H. E. Hart. (,f Masterton, on a camping expedition at White Rock station. They went hunting yesterday, being armed with .303 rifles." Squires was sitting o *i a fence, but slipped, and contact with ihe rifle discharged it. His condition is regarded as serious. Private information received in Nelson to-day stales thai the injured lad had a good night and was conscious this ini'-ning, lan thai his (ondition is still serious.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 22 January 1926, Page 4
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