SHOOTING FATALITY.
SETTLER’S TRAGIC DEATH. WELL-KNOWN MATAMATA MAN. One of the best-known settlers of the Matamata district, Mr. Perclval Barugh, was found dead in a plantation on his farm at Turangaomoana yesterday morning. There was a shotgun beside the body. Mr. Barugh, as was his custom, had gone to collect milk from his sharemilkers at about 7 o’clock and he stated when lie returned home that he had seen two pheasants and he was going out again to shoot them. When he did not return for some time, fears were entertained for his safety and Ids brothers were summoned from a neighbouring farm. Tliev made a search and found the dead man at the foot of a steep hank near the plantation. At an Inquest held before Mr. A. J. Tong, district coroner, in Matamata yesterday, evidence of identification was taken and the inquiry was adjourned sine die. Mr. Barugh. who was it. lived with his mother and sister. Ills rather was a pioneer settler of the district.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 6
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168SHOOTING FATALITY. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20259, 30 July 1937, Page 6
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