DEATH OF TWO TERRITORIALS

Southland Times, Issue 24238, 23 September 1940, Page 4

DEATH OF TWO TERRITORIALS

MOTOR CYCLE LEAVES ROAD AT TUAKAU

JUMP OF 25 FEET ACROSS

STREAM

(United Press Association)

AUCKLAND, September 22.

Two territorials were killed at Tuakau on Saturday night when the motorcycle they were riding left the road near a bridge and jumped 25 feet across a stream. They were:

Lance-Corporal John William Rivers, aged 18, elder son of Mr W. Rivers, of Russell. Private Patrick Henry Tilt, aged 22, son of Mr Henry Tilt, of Glenbrook, Waiuku.

Both 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 the two men lying at the edge of a stream about 18 feet below the bridge and largely screened by willows. A mark on the roadside indicated that the machine had left the tarsealing on the bend and had hit a rise on the bank of the stream just outside the bridge railings. This threw it right across the stream, which is about 25ft wide. The motor-cycle came to rest in eight inches of water. FATAL COLLISION AT INTERSECTION TAUMARUNUI WOMAN DIES FROM INJURIES (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, September 22. A fatal collision occurred at the intersection of the Hinuera to Tauranga and Matamata roads yesterday afternoon. The victim was: Mrs Ida Caroline Gardner, aged 61, of Taumarunui. Mrs Gardner was travelling with her husband, David Gardner, mill rnanager, of Taumarunui, in a car driven by L. R. Pulham, of Taumarunui. It was involved in a collision with another car driven by F. H. Holmes, of Matamata. Mrs Gardner was severely crushed in the chest and died from injuries in the Matamata Hospital six hours later. The other occupants of the car driven by Pulham suffered minor injuries. Holmes and a companion were unhurt. Both cars were seriously damaged.

INJURIES TO THREE MEN PREMATURE EXPLOSION AT WAIPORI (United Press Association) DUNEDIN, September 21. As the result of a premature explosion in the new tunnel at Waipori two workmen, Edward Fitzgerald and Victor O’Brien, were admitted to hospital with burns. David Aitken, of Waipori Falls, suffered a fracture of the leg when he was crushed between some trucks. INJURIES TO HAND James Newton, Waikiwi, suffered injuries to a hand while chopping wood on Saturday.' He was admitted to the Dee Street Hospital. MAN BY HORSE John Kennedy, a married man, aged 65, of Fortification, was kicked on the head by a horse on Saturday afternoon. He was admitted to the Dee Street Hospital suffering from head injuries and his condition was reported to be serious.