PUNCHED DRIVER’S NOSE

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 10

PUNCHED DRIVER’S NOSE

YOUNG MAN’S HECTIC EVENING

SEQUEL IN POLICE COURT

A hectic Saturday evening was rounded off by Sydney Hall -with an assault upon a taxi-cab driver. Hall, a draper, aged 25, did not appear at the Police Court when called today. He was charged with being found drunk in Shortland Street yesterday morning and with assaulting S. Mackie, a taxi-driver. A constable said he had followed Hall up the street as the result of a complaint from the taxi-man who was bleeding from the nose. Hall was drunk. Sydney Mackie told the court why the assault occurred. “A young man who was slightly “staggery” approached me on the taxi rank at Shortland Street about 2 o’clock yesterday morning and asked me how much I would charge to drive him to the Point Chevalier Hall,” he said. “I said 3s was the fare and lie offered me 2s Gd. After an argument he said he would take another taxi which had just arrived on the rank. He then offered mess, but I said my fare was 3s. He punched me on the nose and left.”

On the charge of drunkenness, Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., fined Hail £l. the amount of his bail. A fine of £2 was imposed for the assault.