TWO MEN KILLED
M,()T()R-( YCLISTS KILLED
CRASHED INTO TRAM
(By Telegraph—Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH. April II
Through a motor cycle, which they were riding, clashing into a tram Alexander Candlish, married, of Lin wood, and Herbert George Hiigg, of Woolston. aged DO. were killed at Opawa last evening.
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CHRISTCHURCH. April .10,
Details of the Opawa tragedy, show the accident occurred at a corner near Locarno Street, Opawa. A tram outward hound, having left the squTfre at 10.10 p.in., was struck head on by a motor cycle. The cycle was badly smashed and the front of the tram damaged.
Bugg, aged 33, single, an ex-soldier, the rider of the motor-cycle, was killed instantly, his jaw being smashed. Candlish, aged -15, riding pillion, sustained severe injuries and died shortly after being hospitallod. Candlish was married with eight children, mostly grown up.
The tramway motorman says the cycle had no light and was travelling last.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 April 1929, Page 5
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