TWO LIVES LOST
duck shooting fatalities. ONE VICTIM A WELL-KNOWN SOLICITOR. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GORE, May 5. While duck shooting at Croydon Siding, near Gore, yesterday morning. Owen James Howells, a well-known sportsman and partner in Messrs Bowler, Bannerman and Howells, solicitors, Gore, was fatally shot in the neck. He was wearing gumboots and. it is thought that after climbing over a fence he slipped on muddy ground and fell, the jolt discharging the gun. Mr Howells was single and 38 years of age. Dr. R. H. Howells, of Invercargill. is a brother.
BOY FATALLY INJURED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HASTINGS, May 5. Ralph Pederson, aged 15, of Pakowhai, was fatally injured when a shotgun held by a companion, Kenneth Melting, aged 14, accidentally discharged while the youths were on a shooting expedition. Pederson, who was shot in the abdomen, was taken to the Hastings Memorial Hospital in a truck. He died soon after admission.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1941, Page 3
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