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ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

A. GOT- ACCIDENT

By Telegraph—Press Association LYTTELTON, February 4.

A man named Foster met with a peculiar accident this morning at Governor's Bay. He was shooting rabbits with a rifle, when ons rabbit went 1 into a hole, lde tried to smoke it out, but the grass around caught fire. He was beating out the fire with the stock of his rifle when a charge exploded and shot hirn in the thigh. An operation was carried out an.l the man sent to the hospital:

WOMAN SEVERELY BURNT.

By Telegraph —Press Association. NaPIEK, February 4: Mrs Kelly, aged 78 years, residing at- Milton" terrace, was severely burned whilst 'engaged in washing clothes. Her 'dress caught alight from the coppe'r fire, and before the flames could be suppressed she had been burnt severely about the neck arid chest. She was removed to the hospital in a serious condition.

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAG19090205.2.19

Bibliographic details
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5

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149

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 3108, 5 February 1909, Page 5

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