HEAD-ON SMASH
MOTOR-CYCLIST KILLED
(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)
INVERCARGILL; Octdber 22.
Seddon George William Parker, aged about 21,: of Mataura, was killed near Woodlands tonight when the motor-cycle he was riding met a lorry in a head-on collision. '
Parker, who was riding towards Invercargill, suffered severe head injuries, and was dead when picked up by farmers who are reported to have seen the accident. The lorry had disappeared.
Robert Pershing Wadlow, aged 15, of Illinois, U.S.A., measures Bft s.in in height—and is still growing. • He weighs 30 stone,
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Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 99, 23 October 1936, Page 6
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