SHOOTING ACCIDENT
MAN FATALLY INJURED IN MARLBOROUGH MISHAP IN PIG HUNTING EXPEDITION (By Telegraph—Press Association.) BLENHEIM, This Day. Alan Steele Bunt, a single man, aged 27, of Picton, was fatally shot in Saturday evening when pig hunting at Endeavour Inlet, Queen Charlotte Sound. In company with two other Picton young men, Colin Wilson Borrie and Richard Mervyn Daken, Bunt went by launch to a bay in Endeavour Inlet, where, shortly after landing, a wild pig was bailed 'up by dogs on a hillside, in light bush. Daken, who had a rifle, fired without effect and Borrie, who was using a sawn-off .303 converted into a pistol also failed to kill the pig. It appears that Borrie was reloading his weapon when a premature explosion occurred and Bunt, who was about eight yards away, was struck in the throat, the bullet emerging near the centre of his back.
The injured man was carried about half a mile to the beach, and the police and a doctor were summoned from Picton, but Bunt evidently succumbed shortly after being wounded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 4
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177SHOOTING ACCIDENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 November 1938, Page 4
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