TERRITORIALS KILLED
CYCLE CRASHED ACROSS STREAM AN UNWITNESSED TRAGEDY [Per United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, Sepetmber 22. Two Territorials were killed at Tuakau on Saturday night, when the motor cycle which they were riding left the road near a bridge and jumped 2oft across a stream. They were:— Lance-corporal John William Rivers, aged 18 years, elder son of Mr W. Rivers, of’Russell. ’ Private Patrick Henry Tilt, aged 22 years, son of Mr Henry Tilt, of Glenbrook, Waiuku.
Both were undergoing training at the Hopuhopu Camp. They left yesterday afternoon to visit a friend. Apparently no one witnessed the accident, but this morning a boy saw the machine and the bodies of the two men lying at tho edge of a stream about 18ft below the bridge and largely screened by willows. A mark on the roadside indicated where the machine left the tar-sealing on a bend and hit a rise on the bank of the stream just outside the bridge railings. This threw it right across the stream, which is about 25ft wide. The motor cycle came to rest in Sin of water.
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Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 4
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182TERRITORIALS KILLED Evening Star, Issue 23688, 23 September 1940, Page 4
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