DOUBLE FATALITY
TERRITORIALS KILLED MOTOR CYCLE LEAVES ROAD TRAGEDY NEAR HOPUHOPU CAMP .; (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 22. Two territorials were killed at Tuakau on Saturday night when the
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 25 feet across a stream Thev 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 the edge of a stream about 18 feet below t,he bridge and largely screened by willows. . ■• • '■■"■..•
A mark on the roadside indicated where the machine left the tar-seal-ing 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.2s feet wide. The motor, cycle came to rest in eight inches of water.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24410, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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