RIFLE RANGE MISHAP.
GIRL WOUNDED BY BULLET,
Hastings, Nov. 11
A. military board of inquiry, consisting of Major W. Stevens, of the Central Command Headquarters, Palmerston North, and Captain M. E. Johnson, staff officer iu charge of the Napier regimental district, is being held at Napier this evening to hear evidence in connection with an accident last Saturday, when a girl named Watson, 17 years of age, was wounded by a bullet fired from a rifle range facing the Tutaelkuri River, on. which a launch party, of which the injured girl was a member, was picnicking. ‘The mafiksman engaged in the firing which led to the accident belong to un organisation outside military jurisdiction, but the - circumstances of the happening require that iiivestigutioiis should be made by officers of the staff corps. The members of the board inspected the range yesterday afternoon and will prepare a report after the taking of evidence this evening. .
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Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4530, 13 November 1930, Page 3
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154RIFLE RANGE MISHAP. Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4530, 13 November 1930, Page 3
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