TRAGIC DEATH
HON. T. SHAILER WESTON, M.L.C
FOUND SHOT
,'By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
WELLINGTON, January 20,
The death has occurred in tragic circumstances of the Hon. Thomas Shailer Weston. It removes a personality prominent in the business and industrial life of New Zealand. The body of deceased was found at about six o’clock this evening in the garden at his residence, No. 10, Hobson Street.
There was a rifle lying alongside the body, and apparently deatli had taken place two or three hours earlier.
The deceased who was the eldest son of the late Joseph Weston, who was magistrate at Hokitika, for several years about the end of the seventies and early eighties, was well known in his boyhood days here, being a scholar at Hokitika State School, while his parents resided here.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 4
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133TRAGIC DEATH Hokitika Guardian, 21 January 1931, Page 4
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