MAORI YOUTH’S DEATH
FURTHER SHOOTING FATALITY
ACCIDENT NEAR WAIMANA A sixteen year old Maori youth, Henry Pukepuke, who lived at Matahi, near Waimana, was fatally shot whilst on a shooting excursion with his younger brother, Pat Pukepuke, near his home yesterday afternoon.
The two boys had retrieved a duck which had been shot, and were sitting on a bank near a lagoon when the elder boy jokingly drew the gun towards him, and leaning over the muzzle said to his brother “This is the way you would shoot yourself.” The younger boy noticed deceased’s bootlace * caught across the trigger guard, and as deceased proceeded to demonstrate, there was a violent discharge, and the gun exploded sending the full charge through deceased’s left breast.
Pat Pukepuke raced home and informed the members of his family.
The body was carried to Waimana where an inquest was opened before Mr. C. S. Armstrong, Coroner, for, identification purposes, and adjourned sine die.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 25, 7 May 1947, Page 5
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158MAORI YOUTH’S DEATH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 25, 7 May 1947, Page 5
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