Seaman Wounded When Rifle Discharges
Press Association)
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GISBORNE, May 23. A (Lyttelton seaman, Murray Scott,' feceiVed a buliet wound in the neek yesterday in an unusual accident. "SCott, ' a member of the crew of the Kopara, and accompanied by. ChaHes Freer, was on board the fishing boat Rosa hunting sharks with a rifle, near Mahia,"' when the Rosa lurched suddenly. Freer wasl thrown to the deck and the rifle' diScharged, Wounding Scott in the neck. The boat returned to nort and the wounded man was taken to hospital. His condition is re-f ported to be satisfiaGtory. .
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Chronicle (Levin), 23 May 1949, Page 4
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