ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES.
A FATAL EXPLOSION. JL’kk Tiiuss Association. Auckland, July o. According to a wirt’ received l»y the .Superintendent of Police from tin* constidile at Aratapu, Northern Wairoa, a youth of Ui years named Robert Gibson was fatally -shot while out shooting; in a punt on the Wairoa river. His gun. which had been laid on a seat, fell off and exploded, the charge shattering one of Gihsn’s -legs. He was taken in a launch to the Te Kopuru hospittal, a distance of thirty miles, and died tlierc at 2 o’clock this morning ■'
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 56, 6 July 1915, Page 8
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93ACCIDENTS & FATALITIES. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 56, 6 July 1915, Page 8
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