MOTOR-CYCLES COLLIDE.
ONE RIDER KILLED, THE OTHER BADLY INJURED.
(By Telegraph —Press Association.) ELTHAM, This Day.
At 10.30 last night, Felix Jacob Lchrke, aged 20, a grocer of Eltham, was killed wFen his motor-cycle collided with a motor-cycle ridden by George Alexander Anderson, a farm labourer, of Finncrty Road, Ngahero, at a bend on the Mountain Road within the Borough boundary. It was a head-on collision and both riders were found beneath their machines by a passer-by. Lehrke died almost iinmediately. Anderson was unconscious, with a broken thigh, leg injuries, and a fractured hand; he was taken to the Hawera Hospital. The machines were badly damaged. The night was clear and apparently both headlights had been burning. Lehrke J s ‘parents left last week on a visit to Tahiti.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 May 1930, Page 5
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