SHOT FIRED
YACHTSMAN INJURED < RAFT IN DEFENCE AREA. Auckland. Dec. 8. While sailing a 14ft. yacht near a defence point in the Auckland Harbour yesterday afternoon, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the back by a ricocheting bullet fired by a sentry. The boy. James Louis Riley, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Riley , of Herne Bay was taken to the Auckland Hospital with a bullet in his shoulder-blade, and his condition last night was not serious. Riley was accompanied in the yacht by two other youths. They had sailed into the bay near a prohibited area and were proceeding out when the shot, which they believed to have been a warning one. was tired. They were pulling away from the point when Riley was shot. "Beyond the fact that the boys were cruising in a prohibited area, no statement can be made until an investigation now in progress, has been completed." said an Army official connected with the point concerned.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 292, 11 December 1941, Page 8
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