BOY KILLED WITH SHOTGUN
AUCKLAND, Last Nigbt. A fatal shooting accident occurr.ed to-day at Takahue, near Kataia, wheu Kenneth Vivian Kirtlan, aged .12, an adopted son of Mr. W. Kirtlan, received fatal wounds from a shotgxm discharge. The boy, in company with his eousin, Harold Kirtlan, aged 16, with whom he was staying, went on a shooting expedition on the farm of his 'unele. While- the boys were sitting down for a rest, the younger boy decided to have a shot and roaeliod to take the gun from tlie elder boy. Tlie gun wexit off and the charge eixteied Ihe boy's right breast,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 132, 21 June 1937, Page 7
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