KAIKOURA MAN KILLED IN SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
Harry Helmore Comer, a married man, aged forty-eight, and residing at Kaikoura, was killed yesterday afternoon when the gun he was carrying exploded while he was climbing through a fence near his home. Comer left his home about 3.30 o’clock in the afternoon, saying that h was going rabbi t.-shooting. When he had not returned about 6 p.m. his wife grew anxious, and at her request a neighbour. I\Jr George Wallace, went out to make a search. He found Comer's hat lying in the scrub on the beach and seventeen yards further on, on the beach side of a fence, the body of -ie ceased. His gun. a double-barreled shotgun, was lying on the other side of the fence with one barrel discharged. Comer was shot through the head, evidently at short ranges
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18937, 6 December 1929, Page 16
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