ACCIDENT WITH RIFLE (By Telegraph.—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, Sunday One gunner was fatally injured and another received lesser injuries in an accident with a rifle at a coastal artillery station in Canterbury. The man fatally injured was:— Gunner Neville James Lush, of Waipounamu, Southland. The following official statement was issued this evening by the military authorities:—“At 6.45 a.m. on February 26 a serious accident occurred at a coastal battery and two gunners were injured. They were Neville James Lush, who died in hospital, and Kenneth Evan Tippett. “Both men were removed to the Christchurch Hospital. In spite of blood transfusions, Gunner Lush died late in the afternoon. Gunner Tippett, who is still in hospital, is progressing satisfactorily.”

WAIKATO TIMES, VOLUME 132, ISSUE 21974, 1 MARCH 1943, PAGE 2