MYSTERIOUS SHOT
FEARS OF FURTHER TROUBLE EXCITEMENT AT KOKATAHI. SHEEP WORRYING DOG’S END. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, November 2. Fears of further trouble arose in the Kokatahi district on a recent night when further rifle fire was heard, and it was not till the following morning that the mysterious night shooting was explained, and the fears of those nearby allayed. The shooting had its origin in the vicinity of the lower Kokatahi Hotel, when a settler named Mr L. Kemp became aware that the sheep of a neighbour, Mr J. W. Kelly, were being worried by a dog. To prevent any possibility of later sheep killings, Mr Kemp took immediate steps to deal with this type of marauder, which is inevitably hard to detect. He was rewarded with the killing of the dog, which belonged to a nearby neighbour. As a result of the visit of the dog, three sheep and one lamb were killed. The shooting occurred about 3 a.m., and though some thought it might have been a deerstalker in action, its closeness in open territory seemed to others to be more ominous than it actually was.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1941, Page 5
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