WHAT IS A RESERVED SEAT?
OCCUPIER. REFUSES TO MOVE. HAMILTON, Nov. 30. In September last a seat was reserved lor his Honour Mr Justice Herdman on the Wellington-Auckland express. When the judge joined the train at Frankton, the seat was occupied by a commercial traveller, Harold Meade, who refused to vacate it when requested, and who pointed out itlhat the regulations provided that seats could only be reserved for journeys of 100 mires, whereas the distance from Frankton to Auckland was only 86 miles. It was pointed out that the seat had been reserved from Wellington, but Meade persisted, and refused to vacate the seat. He was charged at the Police Court to-day with occupying a reserved seat and refusing to vacate it when requested. The Magistrate, Mr Wyvern Wilson, asked for a definition of a "reserved" seat, stating that the case couHd .not proceed until such a definition was forthcoming. The railway regulations were searched in vain, and the case was adjourned for a' week to enable a definition to be supplied.
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Shannon News, 4 December 1925, Page 2
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173WHAT IS A RESERVED SEAT? Shannon News, 4 December 1925, Page 2
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