NEW ZEALANDER KILLED
WELL-KNOWN ROUGH-RIDER AND HORSEBREAKER WINNER OF FIVE MEDALS Reed. 9.5 a.m. SYDNEY, Today. Maurice, otherwise “Bud,” Bourke, aged 24, a New Zealander, was killed at Scone, New South Wales, "while breaking in a young horse which fell on him. causing concussion. Bourke, who was a well-known rough-rider and horsebreaker, was understood to be the champion horseman of New Zealand, the winner of five medals and also of the 1929 championship of Australia. He was on holiday with a New Zealand companion. “Buck” Harrison. Bourke’s body was interred at Aberdeen yesterday.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 806, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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93NEW ZEALANDER KILLED Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 806, 29 October 1929, Page 9
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