MAORI SHOT
ACCIDENT IN CAMP WANGANUI, April 4. Teoka Ngawina, aged 28, a married man, was found shot in a camp at Tokomaru East yesterday morning. It appears that he had been cleaning a .303 rifle which evidently had in it a cartridge which was pushed back into the breach. Later, while he was closing the breach, the cartridge exploded through the breach, Ngawina receiving the charge in his chest. The rifle had been tied to the ridgepole of the tent.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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81MAORI SHOT Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1938, Page 10
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