ACCIDENTALLY SHOT
fatality at KIWITAHI
COMMENT BY THE CORONER
[from our own correspondent]
MORRINSVILLE, Monday
A verdict of accidental death was returned at the inquest held at Morrinsvillc to-day before Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., coroner, concerning the death of Frederick Lingard, aged 27, married, who was killed with a pea rifle bullet while shooting rabbits at Kiwitahi yesterday. The vcoroner said deceased lost his life as the result of a pea rifle being accidentally discharged by his companion, William Williams: Mr. Wilson added that the case was a sad one of a young man's lii'e being cut off through the careless use of a firearm. He expressed the opinion that users of guns and rifles should not onlv have licences, but they should be obliged to hold a certificate showing that they had been instructed in tho handling of 'weapons. A loaded weapon should never be pointed in the air, ho concluded.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21346, 22 November 1932, Page 11
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