PROMINENT FARMER FATALLY SHOT.
Per Press Assort at ion. TE KUITI. February 25 A wHI-krown farmer, Walter William Tones, was found dead at the front of his house at Mangaronga. twelve miles from Otorohanga. with a gunshot wound in the forehead, on, Saturday, at. 5.30 p.m Deceased was the son of “ Mokau” Jones, who took a prominent, part in the early history of Mokau and Awakino. Deceased was for the last three years at Tauranga, where he took a prominent, part, in local politics Lately he purchased a farm at Whang aronga, where the tragedy occurred At the inquest on Sunday, a verdict was returned that deceased died from a gunshot wound, there being no evidence to show haw it waa inflicted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18092, 28 February 1927, Page 11
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