REALLY A PARASITE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 43, 20 February 1926, Page 8

REALLY A PARASITE.

c ; INCURRED DEBT BY FRAUD. a } , . ib c JOY-RIDIXG IN A TAXI. s The accused is one of those men whi >f ■ taxi cabs, go for a joy ride, anfi i- J tell the drivers that they are connects! c \ with some business firm, whereas thejr I have not got enough in their pockets t* c buy a box of matches," said Chief Detec--3 I tire Cummings at the Police Court this t \ niornkig during the hearing of a case in V which Harold Frith (25) pleaded guilty , to incurring a debt of £2 9/9 for taxi hire and obtaining credit by fraud. ! Acting-detective Power, who arrested ' accused, said that Frith and another • man, together with three women, went for a ride in a taxi all round Auckland's suburbs. Frith stated he was a member" of a city business firm, but thil was incorrect. . Mr. Cummings said that this was the ' first.time Frith had been in trouble. At Gisborne he had been admitted te»two years' probation for theft, while he wai c subsequently ordered to come up for 0 sentence in another town for false pre« t tences. Frith, was also wanted in con» 11 Election with a maintenance matter, for t< he was £10 in arrears on an order in. '- favour of his wife. f I Frith -teld the magistrate that he had t j not "had any notice of this additional* (charge. >j Mr. Poynton: You don't need to be t served with a notice. You must know I, that your wife cannot live on air or an' • I* east wind. "" "He's really a parasite, your Wor--3 ! ship," said the chief detective. Accused t! was sent to gaol for three months, the a i magistrate telling him that the nest 1 I time he appeared he would get thret - i years' reformative detention.