TWO MOTOR CYCLISTS KILLED
CRASH INTO TRAM ONE VICTIM MARRIED WITH EIGHT CHILDREN (By Telegraph—Press Association) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Through a motor cycle which they were riding crashing into a tram, Alexander C'andlish, married, of Linwnod, and Herbert George Bugg, of Woolston, aged 30, were killed at Opawa last evening. Details of the Opawa tragedy show that the accident occurred at a corner near. Locarno street, when an Opawa tram, outward bound, having left the Square at 10.10 p.m., was struck head (Tii by a motor cycle. The cycle was badly smashed and the front of the tram damaged. Bugg, aged 33, single, an ex-soldier, the rider of the motor cycle, was killed instantly, his jaw being smashed. Candlish, aged 45, rid j ing pillion, died shortly after being taken to hospital. Candlish was a married man with 8 children, mostly grown up. The tramway motorman says that the cycle had no light and was travelling fast.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIII, 11 April 1929, Page 4
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