SHOOTING ACCIDENT
BUSHMAN CRITICALLY HURT TARGET PRACTICE WITH RIFLE [by telegraph—OWN correspondent] OHAKUNE, Monday A bushman, Mr. Jack Groves, agedabont 30, single, of Rangataua, was accidentally shot in the jaw yesterday afternoon while practising target shooting with a pea-rifle. Several men at the camp were practising shooting and Mr. Groves, after adjusting the target, camo from behind a building just as one man fired. The bullet shattered Mr. Groves' jaw and lodged in his throat. He was rushed to the Raetihi Hospital in a critical condition. Tho injured man was later transferred to tho Taumarunui Public Hospital, where his condition to-night was reported to bo serious.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23431, 22 August 1939, Page 8
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