SHOT FIRED
iYACHTSMAN INJUBED
CRA'FT IN DEFENCE AREA INVESTIGATION BY ARMY While sailing a 14ft. yacht near a defence point in the Auckland Harbour yesterday afternoon, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the back by a ricocheting bullet fired by a sentry. The boy, James Louis Riley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Itiley, of 46 Clifton Road, Heme Bay, was taken to the Auckland Hospital with a bullet in his shoulderblade and his condition last night was not serious.
Hiley was accompanied in the yacht by two otber youths. They had sailed into the bay near a prohibited area and were proceeding out when the shot, which they believe to have been a warning one, was fired. They were pulling away from the point when Riley was shot. Brought back to his home by his friends Riley was taken to hospital, where the bullet was removed.
"Beyond the fact that the boys were cruising in a prohibited area no statement can be made until an investigation, now in progress, has been completed," said an Army official, connected with the point concerned, last night.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24142, 8 December 1941, Page 6
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