GUARD & CHILD'S TICKET.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1683, 25 February 1913, Page 4

GUARD & CHILD'S TICKET.

AND A -SCENE IN THE TRAIN,

(Br TclcgTaph.-Bpccial: Correspondent.) 1 , Wahoaniii,' February 24. A ease nf interestio railway traveller*, and one which, incidentally, showed the' necessity, for, a legal definition of the word "obstruction,",was before Mr. Kerr, S.M., to-day. , ' '~ ' II appeared fronv, tho proceedings that, defendant, while travelling by train to Wnngauui, had some words with a guard , over paying for a child-'which defendant \ said, was "about" three years of age. Eventually ho took; out a ticket for the child. Latere when the guard;was col- ! lectins tho tickets, defendant handed over,. Hie child's ticket torn in pieces.''Th'i guard thereupon ea''d that, .the Dcparl' T mcht did not recognise destroyed ticket?, - but defendant refused to ; pay for another, ' and, prosccutioil followed; . The magistrate fined defendant.ii 2 a'nf. costs for his action, but declined to con- ' sider that "obstruction" had place. He. held.that,' •'before, obstruction could : take, place within the,meaning of tho Act, force' wpuld'liave to be U6ed, and : ha, therefore considered!' that in; the present prosecution, the, police- were straining, th«' definition of,the w'ord,'' ■''■.''.;••