PRETTY HARD MOB

Hokitika Guardian, 16 September 1932, Page 6

PRETTY HARD MOB

OPINION OF WEST COASTERS. BY A DEFENDANT IN COURT. CHRISTCHURCH, September 14. • > */11, Jwonfe out • with- -some-*~friend» of/ the West Coast’ footballers a', d they made ine drunlc They’ are a' pretty hard mob, you know, and I Couldn’t help it.”’This was the explanation givep 1 by Christopher Sllrfider,, aged 62 years, of Tilford street, and one of the few surviving haiisom 'cab drivel's in Christchurch, to Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M., in ' the Magistrate’s Court this morning, when lie answered a charge of being drunk in charge of his cab on Saturday Shroder was fined 20s, in default forty-eight hours’ imprisonment.

Senior-Sergeant Fox said Shroder was Seen by Oonstabie A. It. Silveste? in-'High street driving his cab in '» very erratic manner. He pulled U P outside the White Hart Hotel and the fare paid him. However, Shroder made such a scene that his passenger paid him a second time.

Shroder was very drunk and Constable Silvester was unable to detach him from his high seat at the rear of the cab; finally he got the assistance of two other constables. Shroder had a conviction for a snhilar offence about two years ago. The defendant was allowed seven d*vs in which to find the amount of the fine.