FATAL PIG HUNT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1619, 10 December 1912, Page 5

FATAL PIG HUNT.

THE EFFORT TO RENDER AH). (By Telegraph.— Press Association.) Chrlstchurchi December 9. Yesterday three youths, named Moses : Pawelka, aged 19, his brother Michael, two years younger, and William Fix, aged about sevfinteen, went pig shooting in. the . hills -at the back of "White Rook station. About 3.45 p.m. the younger brother rode into one -of the farm dwellings higher up / the' valley and told the occupants that Moses had been, shot in the groin on one . of the spurs of the Tapley Range. Mr. C. H. Ensor at once sent a motor--car down to North Loburn to telephone to Rongiora for a doctor, and then rode up himself , with four mounted shepherds to where the youth lay. The journey wag about ten miles, through very rough and broken country, and the unfortunate lad had died about a quarter of an hour before the helpers reached him. / Dr.; Burnett had been reached by telephone, and was as far as his motor-car could take liim before six o'clock. There horses were waiting for him, and Father Hyland, of Rangiora, waa only a little while behind him. ■ Particulars of. the accident are meagre, but it seems that deceased fired at a pig, wounding it, and then, stepped, aside for Fix to take a shot. As he was about to fire, Fix slipped, and the charge lodged -in'deceased's back, rather above the right hip. On wedng deceased and the country where he'was, the doctor said that had Pawelka'.been ; alive it would not have been possible to move him, and they could only have put him under canvas there. . ' Y '. ■