BOY MISTAKEN FOR OPOSSUM; SHOT DEAD
AUCKLAND, Dec. 5. While two youths were shooting with ,22 rifle on a Glen Eden farm last. evening they heard a sound* which they thought was an opossum in a ma-crocarpa tree. One, aged 17, fired .three shots into the tree. His companion, aged 20, saw a »cap on the ground and found his own brother's body among the branches. Death was apparently instantaneous. ' The boy accidentally shot was Donald Graeme Poingdestre, aged 15, of Glen Eden, a second-year pupil at Avondale College, Doetors, an ambolance and the police were summoned. An inquest "will be held. The boy's mother said last night that she thought Donald was working in their garden and did not know how he came to be in the trefe on the farm opposite.
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Chronicle (Levin), 5 December 1949, Page 4
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