WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 September 1940, Page 2

WEEK-END ACCIDENTS

TWO TERRITORIALS KILLED X . MOTORCYCLE TRAGEDY [per press association.] AUCKLAND, September 22. Two Territorials were killed at Tuakau on Saturday night when a motor-cycle they were riding left the road near the bridge and jumped 25 feet across a stream. They were:— Lance-Corporal John William Rivers, aged 18, the elder son of Mr W. Rivers, of Russell. Private Patrick Henry Tilt, aged 22, a son of Mr Henry Tilt, of Glenbrook, Waiuku. Both men were undergoing training at the Hopuhopu camp. 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 two men lying at the edge of the stream about 18 feet below the bridge. A mark on the roadside suggested that the machine left the tar-sealing on the bend and hit the rise on the bank of the stream just outside the bridge railings, which threw it right across the stream. The motor-cycle came to rest in eight inches of water. WOMAN MOTORIST KILLED. AUCKLAND, September 22. A collision between two motorcars at the intersection of the Hinuera, Tauranga and Matamata roads yesterday afternoon, resulted in the death of Mrs. Ida Caroline Gardener, aged 61, of Taumarunui. Mrs. Gardener was travelling with her husband, Mr.-David Gardener, a mill manager, of Taumarunui, in a car driven by Mr. L. R. Pulham, of Taumarunui. The car was involved in a collision with another car, driven by Mr. F. H. Holmes, of Matamata. Mrs. Gardener was severely crushed in the chest, and died from her injuries in the Matamata Hospital six hours later. The other occupants of the car driven by Mr. Pulham suffered minor injuries. Holmes and his companion were unhurt. Both cars were seriously damaged. BURNT IN EXPLOSION. DUNEDIN, September 21. As a result of a premature explosion in the new tunnel at Waipori, two workmen, Edward Fitzgerald and Victor O’Brien, were sent to hospital with burns. David Aitken, of Waipori Falls, suffered a fracture of a leg when crushed between two trucks. FATAL FALL DOWN HOLD GISBORNE, September 23.

Herbert Munro Hughes, 18, a halfcaste Maori, died in the Te Puia Hospital, yesterday, from injuries received when he fell down the hold on_ the steamer Kopara, on which he was assisting to discharge cargo at Hicks Bay, last week.