LOADED RIFLE RISK
TARARUA DEER-STALKING DEATH.
COMMENTS MADE BY CORONER.
By Telegraph—Press Association. Wellington, Nov. 21
Strong comment on the danger of carrying loaded rifles in the bush was made by the coroner, Mr. Gilbertson, at an inquest to-day on Charles James Galliers, who was accidentally shot while deer stalking in the Tararua Ranges on Saturday. The coroner said it was clear that insufficient precautions were taken in handling loaded rifles, particularly in bush country, where anyone was liable to slip. A deer stalking expedition was not an occasion for snap shooting. There was no necessity for the rifle in the present case to have been loaded, but. if there was a safety catch it should have been on.
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Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 13
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