WITHOUT A TICKET
TRAIN TRAVELLER FINED
Hamilton, January 13.
For travelling on a railway train between Auckland and Frankton without a ticket, travelling with intent to evade payment of bis fare, and- for failing' to exhibit the ticket available for the journey when requested by the guard, Joseph Trotter, who failed to appear, but entered a plea of guilty, was today fined £1 ou each of three charges. Senior-Sergeant Sweeney said that he had been asked by the Railway Department to ask His Worship to order the defendant to pay the amount of the fare. The magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, said that if the department wanted this they could make it rhe subject of a civil action. He thought the Government were' well recompensed by getting £3 for giving the man a ride.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2986, 14 January 1926, Page 3
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133WITHOUT A TICKET Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 2986, 14 January 1926, Page 3
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