“Guilty through ignorance." was the plea of a young man who appeared in the Magistrates Court. Invercargill, recently. on a charge of failing to stop at the rear of a stationary tramcar when passengers were disembarking. The defendant went round the right of the car and in his defence stated that he had been doing so consistently for 12 years.
“I had no idea that it was a breach of the regulations,’’ he said. “Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, remarked the Magistrate, who expressed the hope that the defendant would not continue the practice,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 9
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