SHOOTING ACCIDENT
YOUNG FARMER WOUNDED RIGHT ARM AMPUTATED Press Association WAIPUKURAU, To-day. As a young farmer, Jack Symes, was returning from duck shooting on Hatuma Lake yesterday with a companion, James Simmonds, and was stepping out of a boat, Simmonds knocked his gun causing it to explode. Symes received the full charge in the right arm and wrist. He was taken to the Waipukurau Hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate the arm below -he elbow. His condition this morning lfc c-iTiqfa ntni’L'.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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84SHOOTING ACCIDENT Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 655, 6 May 1929, Page 1
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