FATAL COLLISION WITH COW
MOTOR-CYCLIST DIES AT THAMES.
By Telegraph.—Press Association. Thames, Aug. 4.
W. R. Johnston, traffic inspector for the Hauraki Plains County, was found unconscious' on the main road near Ngatea on Sunday morning, with his motorcycle lying close by, while a dead coy was about 20 feet away. He died in hospital last night. Johnston had been to Thames on Saturday night and it is believed that, when cycling home to Ngatea, he collided with a cow and killed it. He was suffering from fracture of the base of the skull and a lacerated brain., __
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 August 1931, Page 7
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