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New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11785, 22 March 1924, Page 4

When Mr E. A. Dawson, of the Pub. he Works Department, was in the backyard of his house at Tuatapere, he heard a “whizz.” At the time, Mr Dawson was bending down in the act of cutting a petrol tin, a.nd simultaneously to hearing the sound he felt the impact of a bullet and a sharp pain. A doctor was at once consulted, and after attending to the injury, ordered the patient’s removal to the Southland Hospital for X-ray treatment. Mr Dawson states that he heard no- shot, hut it was surmised that he was struck by a rifle bullet, fired by someone in the bush which partly surrounds the house. An interesting innovation is being made in a Chicago college. On tbe contention that deportment, carried out on scientific lines, would eliminate half the flat-feet in the institution, the authorities are adding walking lessons to the curriculum..