ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING
ROTORUA, April 4. A man was aeeidentally shot an-.i wounded by a fellow employee at a timber mill at Upper Atiamuri late yes ter day. He was MR. WILLIAM MILLWOOD, sing'c aged 42 years, a millhand, ut Atiamuj-i. He was taken to the Rotorua Hospitai where a .22 calibre bullet was removed from his right side. He was later discharged, 1 he bullet was fired by a fellow worker who had .been rabbit-shootiug nearby. He was empting the magazine of an automatie rifle and it U beiieved one eartridge failed to ejeet md remained in the breeeh.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1949, Page 5
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99ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING Chronicle (Levin), 5 April 1949, Page 5
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