YOUNG LIVES LOST

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 13

YOUNG LIVES LOST

COLLISION AT OKOROIRE INQUEST CONCLUDED (From Our Otcn Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. The adjourned inquest concerning the deaths of Norman Castleton and Henry Thomas Young, the two young men who succumbed to injuries received in a motor-cycle collision at Okoroire on January 28, was continued before the coroner, Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M.. yesterday. Dr. J. McMiken, medical practitioner on the staff of the Waikato Hospital, stated that he went to Okoroire in the ambulance on the night of the accident. He found Castl«ton deeply unconscious, and Young was practically unconscious and looked moribund. Both the injured men were removed to the hospital, Young dying at Tamahere en route at about 5 a.m. After Castleton’s admission his condition gradually became worse and he died at 10 a.m. Witness considered he was past help; his skull was fractured at the base. A formal verdict that deceased met their deaths from injuries received in a collision between their two motorcycles at Okoroire on the evening of January 28 was returned.