RIFLE EXPLODES
MAORI MEETS HIS DEATH By Telegraph—Pi est Asst Nation WANGANUI. April 4. Teoka Ngawina, aged 28. married, was found shot at a camp at Tokomaru East yesterday morning. It appears he had been cleaning a .303 rifle evidently with a cartridge in, which was pushed back in th. breach. Later, while closing the breach, the cartridge exploded through the breach, deceased received the charge in the chest. The rifle had been tied to the ridgepole of the tent.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21004, 5 April 1938, Page 12
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80RIFLE EXPLODES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIV, Issue 21004, 5 April 1938, Page 12
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