SELLING A FREE PASS.
Fok some timo past the Government have allowed the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to is?uo free passes on the railway to men who wished to go up country in search of work. One would hardly conceive it possible that even this system of charity would be abused, but such appears to have been the case. At the 7 >olice Court this morning, before Dr. Giles, 8.M., a young man named Henry Spayne was charged with having on the 9fck of January committed a breach of the Public Works Act, 1882, section 157, sub-section 6, by selling one free pass — issued to him—to one John Burns, otherwise known as William Uodds, with intent to defraud the Railway Department.
Mr Theo. Cooper appeared for the Department, and said that if the case were proved he would ask that1 a heavy penalty should be inflicted tinder the peculiar circumstances of the case.
Mr Is. G. Brassey, who appeared for the defendant, asked that the case should be adjourned until Monday week, as an important witness was absent. This was granted.
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Auckland Star, Volume XX, Issue 58, 9 March 1889, Page 5
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