CYCLIST KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 300, 19 December 1930, Page 7

CYCLIST KILLED.

SMASH NEAR CAMBRIDGE

TRIO RETURNING FROM DANCE

SECOND MAN IN HOSPITAL. YOUNG LADY ESCAPES. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) HAMILTON, this day. A motor fatality occurred on the Hamilton-Cambridge road late last night when a news agent named Harry Arthur Hooper, aged 30, single,' residing with his parents in Mill Street, Frankton, was killed, while Thomas Kelly, aged 26, a bootmaker, single, of Brookfield, Hamilton Eaet, has a fractured skull and lies in a serious condition in the Waikato Hospital.

It seems that Messrs. Hooper, Kelly and Miss Home had been attending a dance at Cambridge and were returning some time after midnight, Hooper riding' a motor cycle, and Kelly and Miss Home occupying the side car. . Just before reaching Banks Corner, about three miles from Cambridge, they passed a van. Instead of rounding the bend, however, Mr. Hooper's cycle continued along the side road for about 30 yards and careered into the long grass on the margin, where apparently it struck an obstacle and turned a somersault.

People in the van heard the crash and hurried to the scene, where they found Mr. Hooper dead, apparently having been killed instantaneously.

Dr. J. Ritchie, of Cambridge, had MiKelly conveyed to the Waikato Hospital Mies Horne fortunately escaped injury,