FATAL ENDING TO SHOOTING PARTY
WELLINGTON, April 20.-, A shooting party of Wellington sportsmen which visited the Wairarapa had a tatai snding touight when Harry Denton Chester Antrobus, a paintei; aged 35, of Happy Valley Road, Ohira Bay, was aecidentally killed by the dis- ■ charge of a rifle of another member of ■ the party. The aceident occurred in a whare on Pulcepiripiri station about 40 miles miles from Masterton. The party had : returned to the whare from the day's l shooting and Harry Antrobus was ' lighting the fire to diy their wet clothes. Another member of the party ) in an adjoining room laid his .303 rifle . on the table when it discharged and the t bullet went through a cupboard and wiill and struck Ilarry Antrobus in th Ihno rl
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Chronicle (Levin), 21 April 1947, Page 3
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