MAGISTRATE’S STRICTURES
RAILWAY OFFICIAL CRITICISED. 'l* (By Telegraph—Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. This is a stupid case, said Magistrate Hunt, when evidence had been heard against two young men charged with smoking in a non-smoking railway carriage. One was also charged with using insulting language to a railway official. The Inspector said that one defend-ant-refused to give his full name and would produce no papers, but said; “No wonder the railways don’t pay when there is. a like you swooping about.” Counsel for tlie defence said that the charge, was ridiculous. The. Inspector said lie wanted to mqke mire where the men worked and so he followed them up a road. The Magistrate: “You had no right to do that. . You are not a policeman, you are asking for trouble.” Without calling on the defence the Magistrate ordered the defendants to pay costs on the charge of smoking, and dismissed tlie other charge as trivial.
“The railway officials should have been more discreet. It is not a very thing for respectable people to have to turn out their pockets for an official. I know I would not have done it.”
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 3
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192MAGISTRATE’S STRICTURES Hokitika Guardian, 29 November 1930, Page 3
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