MOTOR-CYCLES COLLIDE
MEN BADLY HURT Press Association. WHAKATANE, To-day. A head-on collision occurred between two motor-cycles at Awakeri last evening. The riders were Horace Johnston, of Edgecumbe and Claud Shepherd, of Tarawera. Johnston was taken to Whakatane, where it was found that an eye had been injured through a piece of metal from his goggles becoming embedded. The metal could not be extracted and the patient was taken to Auckland at four o’clock this morning. Shepherd was rendered unconscious, but recovered. Both machines were badly smashed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 9
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86MOTOR-CYCLES COLLIDE Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 79, 24 June 1927, Page 9
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