FIGHTING OVER A FARE
"ONLY TWO BLOWS"—"ONLY £2 FINE." • J T^ r , e - Were two Wows struck," said Calvm Thomas Craddock Duftv, a labourer, aged 33, who appeared with lorn Wynyard, a bushman. 26 before Mr F K. Hunt, S.M., in the' t this .morning on charges ° " m g aT| d of using obscene language. "Only two blows? Well, only a £2 tine, said the magistrate. ~ ® v^ enc . 6 was given by a taxi driver ~at 116 driven accused from St. Paul s Street to Grey Avenue and back, llie fare was 4/ } but the men started arg-umg about it, and it mounted on the meter to 6/6. As soon as thev got into the cab Wynyard wanted to fight Duftv. Constable Julian arrested the men in St. Paul's Street.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 166, 16 July 1931, Page 3
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