BUS SERVICE FARE

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 149, 12 July 1937, Page 6

BUS SERVICE FARE

Authority of Licence Exceeded "This has been done as a sorfc of trick by.the oppositiou servicc," said Mr .,v: J. W. Langley cn defence of Newman Bros., Ltd., and James Holmes, a diiver, who were charged respectively with" aiding the commission of au offence ani with exceeding the authority of the jjassenger service licence of the eompany. The "evidence of Inspeelor J. H. It. Semple, of the Transport Department, ehowed that the wife of tho owner of the opposition service had gained a reeeipt for an undercharged fare. Mr. Hemple explained that the fare from Te Aute to Hastings was 2/6, and a woman had obtained a receipt for a ride over this distance for 2/-. Tho next lowest fare, from Pakipaki to Hastings, was 2/-. "This woman was the wife of the owner of the other service," said Mr Langley, "and she had ridden se»eral fimes before frcrji different points, but had been charged Ihe correct fare. This time she said she was a nurse and wanted a receipt to be able to claim a refund of her expenses." The difficulty, said Mr Langley, was that the licence did not clearly cLefine Te Aute, * which extendfed for about eight miles, and was a district rather than a township. In any case, the fare . charged was still in excess of the rail fare and of that of the other service. The eompany was fined £2, with 10/cOsts, and the driver ordered to pay 10/- costs