INJURIES TO MOTORCYCLIST
_ 4 _ STRUCK BUMP AT HIGH SPEED Dominion Special Service. Auckland. January S. While practising at high speed .on * motor-cycle at Munwai beach. «’hich i» used for racing. T. Rodgers, of Otahuhu. was thrown and severely iniured thia afternoon. He had attained a speed of 99 miles per hour before the accident, which occurred when the machine nit w bump. Rodgers was thrown 50 feet before he fell. HOTEL PORTER KILLED. Dominion Special Service. Auckland, January 8. Frederick Edge, aged 34. a porter emifloved at the Grand Hotel, recalled fatal injuries this morning Y.. u , a motor-cvclo on which he was rll -* n B '/ work, struck a telegraph pole. He was taken to hospital and died there to-
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 85, 9 January 1928, Page 3
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