ALARMING EXPERIENCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 December 1943, Page 6

ALARMING EXPERIENCE

FOUR BOYS SHOT AT. ONE SEVERELY WOUNDED. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) OAMARU, December 20. Four Oamaru boys had an alarming experience late yesterday afternoon when they were shot at by another lad with a .22 calibre rifle and later with g double-barrelled shotgun. 1 As a result of the shooting one of the boys, Ernest Little, aged 16, is in the Public Hospital. He received a charge of shot in the head, thigh, chest and a leg, and an operation was later performed. The hospital authorities reported today that Little was progressing favourably. The scene of the shooting was in Old Mill Road, near a water wheel. The four boys were inspecting the mill wheel when they were fired upon by a boy 12 years of age with a .22 rifle. Following this, the boys hurriedly returned to the road, and three of them climbed a rise beside the face of the borough council’s quarry. The fourth, Little, who was keeping observation on the person using the weapon, while standing on the edge of the quarry face, received a charge of shot. Though severely wounded, Little was able to make his way down to the. roadway and was conveyed by a passing motorist, first to a doctor’s surgery and then to the Public Hospital. The police are making inquiries.