DEER-STALKING FATALITY
Per Press Association.
MAN SHOT IN THE RUAHINES. COMRADE'S RACE FOR HELP.
PALMERSTON N., Last night. A fatal accident occurred to-day ip the rugged liill .couxitry of the Ruar hines at the back of Apiti, when Ivo Cummerfield, aged 32 years, farmer, received a rifle bullet in the thigh. Deceased, with a companion, Albert Dick, left on a deer stalking expedition two or three days ago. Dick reached Table Flat after an arduous race through seven miles of bush with news of the accident. A relief party went out and a doctor and police followed, but on retux-ning to the scene Cunxmerfield was dead. Before leaving deceased for assistance Dick did all he eould to staunch the wound. The body was brought several miles from the snowline in the Ruahines, where the fatality. occurred, and the retnainder of the journey will he undertaken to-morrow. Constahle Ferguson, of Kimbolton, is remaining in charge. ■ Mr Cummerfield is a brother of Mrs Arthur Hitchman, of Napier. Mrs Hitchman left this morning for her pax-ents' home in Apiti.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 55, 5 April 1930, Page 10
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176DEER-STALKING FATALITY Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 55, 5 April 1930, Page 10
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