ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.
LOST OVERBOARD. By Tel«graph,—P;e« Aatociatie«. Christchurcli, Last Night.
While the Maori was on the passage from Wellington last night a lad named Jack Russell Burn, 15 years of age, disappeared overboard. Burn, wijp was a pupil at St. Andrew's College, Christehurch, had been on a visit to Wellington, convalescing a,fter a severe attack of influenza. He was a foster son of lira. Burn, 281 Hereford Street. Mrs. Bum •lost two sons at the war —one on Gallipoli and one in Mesopotamia. The third and only surviving son died a couple of months ago during the influenza epidemic.
KILLED THROUGH GUNSHOT WOUND Wellington, Last Night. This morning an inquest was held touching the death of a youth named Stanley Godfrey, the verdiet being accidental killed through a gunshot wound. Evidence was given to the effect that deceased had been out rabbit shooting witli his brother and a friend, and a defective gun went off accidentally,
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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1919, Page 5
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