KOITERANGI SHOOTINGS
——— death of surviving victim. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) GREYMOUTH, March 18. George Sackville Ridley, aged 54, agricultural inspector in the Education Department, the sixth and only surviving victim of the Koiterangi shootings by Stanley Graham in October, 1941, died at 4.30 p.m. today in the Hokitika Hospital. He leaves a wife, one daughter and one son, Lieutenant Ridley, who is serving overseas. Except for five weeks in Christchurch last Christmas, Mr Ridley had been in hospital since the shootings. In the opinion of Dr. R. F. Aitken, medical supernitendent, his death was indirectly due’to his wounds. Mr Ridley was able to get about and was progressing well till five weeks ago, when he relapsed.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1943, Page 3
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115KOITERANGI SHOOTINGS Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 March 1943, Page 3
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