SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
MAN INJURED AT GLADSTONE. A young man named Howard Hopkins, of 27.' Aurora Street, Petone, is in the Croydon Private Hospital, Cartertony with' a bullfet wound in his thigh, received when out shobting rabbits with his, brother near Gladstone on SundAyi afternoon. The two brothers were; proceeding along a river flat when Edward Arthur Hoskins, who was carrying a .22/calibre rifle, stumbled and fell. The rifle discharged and the bultet entered his brother’s thigh. The injured man was conveyed to Carterton. Hia condition is reported to be not serious.
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Wairarapa Age, 30 November 1937, Page 4
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