SUBURBAN TRAVELLERS.
WHO FORGOT THEIR PASSES, Somo observations of interest to thos« railway travellers who hold bcbsou tiokets—of purticular interest to those ivlio sometimes forget to cany tlio tickets—were made by Mr. H. H. Ostler, of the 1 Crown Law Office, in tho Magistrate's Court yesterday. A ease was to have been beard against a man who travels regularly between Wellington and Lower Hutt, and who has a season ticket. Ono day recently he left his ticket at homo, ami when the guard asked him to pay a laro ho refused to do so. "It is simply a question of principle," said Mr. Ostler, "as to whether the Department can charge a mail who has bought a season ticket (but has not got 1 the ticket in his possession) with failing to pay his fare. Well, in this case tho man iiad paid his proper faro by buying a season ticket." So, Mr. Ostler explained, tho Department had substituted that chargo with ono of failing to produce a ticket when requested by tho guard to do so. A summons, it was stated, had been issued on the lines mentioned by Mr. Ostler, but had not been served on tha defendant.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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200SUBURBAN TRAVELLERS. Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1413, 13 April 1912, Page 4
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