Keith Hamilton MacTavish, (1930-22/10/1951). "into the Lower Shotover"

 

MAN AND WOMAN KILLED

MOTORCYCLE FALLS INTO RIVER

96FT DROP INTO LOWER SHOTOVER

(New Zealand Press Association) INVERCARGILL, October 22.

A young man and woman were killed last night when the motor-cycle they were riding plunged 96ft into the Lower Shotover river, between Queenstown and Arrowtown. They were: 

Remains (? the name is blurred) Wilson, of Invercargill, and 

Keith Hamilton McTavish, of Dunedin. 

The motor-cycle went past the turn to a bridge. The river passes through a very rocky gorge at this point. 

Nothing was known of the accident until Mr McTavish’s body was found on a rock ledge by the river this morning.

Miss Wilson’s body was recovered five miles down the river late this afternoon.  -Press, 23/10/1951.

Andersons Bay Cemetery, Dunedin.