RAILWAY BY-LAW.
RIGHT TO RESERVE A SEAT. CASE TESTED IN COURT. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christehurch, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day a man was charged with a breach of the New Zealand Railway Hy-laws (section 79) in that he failed to quit a reserved seat when asked to do so, he not being the holder, of a reserved ticket. Defendant maintained tjiat there ,waa no mark denoting any reservation upon the seat he took, and as the seat was not claimed until the train left, and he could not get another. He refused to leave it; he was a smoker and did not wish to leave the smoking car. Mr. Day, S.-M., eaid he thought this was the first case fought under the bylaw in question anywhere in New Zealand. He would convict and order the defendant to pay costs.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 5
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141RAILWAY BY-LAW. Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 5
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