Police seek witnesses
The Christchurch police seek witnesses to a fatal motor-cycle accident on Pound Road on February I. A United States serviceman stationed at Antarctic support force bas r at Christchurch Airport died when his motor-cycle failed to take a bend near the airport at 1.45 a.m. that dad. He was Gregory Owen Stites, aged in his early 20s. A woman who was on the motor-cycle, Pauline June Cone, aged 21, of "ieviot, was injured in the accident but has since been discharged from hospital. The police would like to hear from anyone who might have seen the couple on a blue Honda motor-cycle shortly before e accident. The police could not release Mr Stites’s name until they were told by Interpol that his next-of-kin in the United States had been informed of his death.
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Press, 13 February 1981, Page 3
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