SOLDIERS KILLED
motor-cycle off road Auckland, Last Night. Two territorials were killed at Tuakau on Saturday night when the motor-cycle they were riding left the road near a bridge and jumped 25 feet across a stream. They were Lance-Corporal John William Rivers, aged 18, elder son of Mr. W. Rivers, Russell, and Private Patrick Henry Tilt, aged 22, son of Mr. Henry Tilt, Waiuku, Both were undergoing training at Hopuhopu camp, which they left yesterday afternoon to visit a friend. Apparently no one saw the accident but this morning a boy saw the machine and the bodies of the two men lying at the edge of the stream about 18 feet below the bridge and largely screened by willows. A mark on the roadside indicated that the machine left the tar-sealing on • a bend and hit a rise on the bank . oi the stream just outside the bridge- railings. This threw it right across - the stream, which is about 25 feet wide. The motorcycle came to rest ip, eight inches of water. ^ J
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 September 1940, Page 8
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