FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT.
• ♦ As a. result of an injury received while shooting at Martinborough on Christinas Day, Mr Renneth Port, the 19 year old son of Mr Win. Port of Sandon, died in the Greytown hospital yesterday afternoon. At 9 a.m. on Christmas morning tin? party were ascending a steep slope through the hush, and one member, walking behind Mr Port, was asked whether or not his rifle was cocked. Almost simultaneously with the question the rifle went off, the charge entering Mr Port’s leg and shattering it.
Mr Port had to he carried over a mile in rough country, before he could be conveyed by ambulance to the Greytown hospital, a distance of 20 miles, where the leg had to be amputated below the knee. The operation, combined with the shock and the jarring which would he unavoidable in carrying an injured man a. mile in such broken country, proved to be too much for the unfortunate lad, and lie succumbed to his injury yesterday afternoon.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3580, 28 December 1926, Page 3
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167FATAL SHOOTING ACCIDENT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3580, 28 December 1926, Page 3
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