ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
DUCK SHOOTING TRAGEDY (P.A.) WANGANUI. May 20. Harold James Ward, aged 31, a master butcher, of Manutahi, received fatal injuries in a duck shooting accident at Kakaramea this morning. A bird rising from, a dam on Mr K. A. Carmichael's property was brought down by the gun of Mr Ward’s companion, Douglas Hector Leigh, aged 16 years, a son of Mr J. Leigh, of Alton. Unknown to Leigh, Mr Ward had moved some feet closer to him, with the result that portion of the charge struck him on the head. Mr Ward leaves a wife and three'children aged from four to eight years. MOTORISTS INJURED Seba Farry and Delia Farry, husband and wife, who live at Gore, were admitted to the Dunedin Hospital at 10 p.m. on Saturday with injuries received in a motor accident which occurred at Palmerston earlier in the day. WOOD CHOPPING MISHAP Redmond Rudkin, aged 30, living at 18 Hunt street, was admitted to Hospital at 7.20 p.m.. yesterday with an injury to a finger of his left hand, received when he was chopping firewood at his home.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25849, 21 May 1945, Page 6
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