TARIKI TRAGEDY

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 November 1928, Page 9

TARIKI TRAGEDY

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PARENTS’ PAINFUL DISCOVERIES THEIIR FIRST NEWS OF THE ACCIDENT. (By Telegraph—Special to The Star.) STRATFORD, Nov. 16. Roberts, one of the victims of the motor cycle accident, is a son of Air A. C. Roberts, of Juliet Street, Stratford, and Johnson is a son of Air V. Johnson, builder, of O-punake Road. Roberts was employed in Rlobinson and Pope's tinsmith shop and Johnson was employed in his father’s business, of builder, at Stratford. The lads were returning from a. visit to New: Plymouth. The Stratford police were .informed of the accident by a resident in the vicinity, who was roused by hearing a loud crash. The accident happened on a straight piece of road just over the concrete bridge half a mile north of Tariki township. The inquest as regards Roberts and Johnson will be opened at Stratford this afternoon and as regards Williams at Inglewood later. After evidence of identification has been taken the in quests will be adjourned, probably for a week. The suggestion is made that there was another person on Williams’s bicycle, but no confirmation of this can be got. In both cases the parents of the Stratford boys clid not know anything about the tragedy till this morning. Mrs Johnson went out early to get the morning paper and on reading about the accident discovered her son was not in his bed. Her husband immediately went to. the hospital, arriving just before his son died. A neighbour of Roberts, after seeing the paper report, went to Roberts's house. Airs Roberts thought Tier son was in bed. but a visit to his room showed that he had not slept in his bed.