TAXI-DRIVERS FINED
— Prees ASBOeiation.)
Unlicensed Transport Service
(By Telfeeranh-
AUCKLAND, This Day. Giving judgment in a case in which the Transport Department prosecuted eighteen taxi-drivers for conducting an unlicensed transport service from Auckland to Rotorua, in respect to tourists off the ship Strathmore in November. Mr Orr-Walker, S.M., fined seventeen defendahts £5 and costs each. Anthony Ealph^ de Balfour manager of the Internatiofial Tourist Bureau, of which nine of the taxi-drivers were stated to "Be shareholders, was fined £10 and costs on one of several charges of eounselling and procnring a breach of the transport regulations in respect to ten of the taxi-drivers who had been fined. The M_jtgi«tra.te said that «he defendants had been warned by a similar prosecution a year ago, and he had to impose a penalty which, he considered, would deter them from Tepeating this breach of the law.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 5
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143TAXI-DRIVERS FINED Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 72, 17 December 1937, Page 5
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