PARKED CARS DAMAGED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 243, 15 October 1931, Page 11

PARKED CARS DAMAGED.

SYSTEM OF OBSTRUCT! QX j I j j UXALTHOPJSED '"ATTENDANTS." j r j Allegations that unauthorised atten- 1 cants at some of the Auckland parking [ places wilfully damaged cars nhase.j owners would not pay paridng lees,, were made at the annua! meeting of the j A A. A. last evening. The speaker. Mr. Newbury, said that j t an Indian had recently pleaded in Court.; ! where he had appeared on a breach oi i I a by-law, that when he had parked his -j i car' behind the Civic Square he had : refused to nay the attendant I/, and j had later found that his lights and j suark plugs had been tampered with, j Chief Detective Hammond had assured j the speaker that so znany complaints i of similar incidents had been made to f the police thai they were convinced ; there was a system of obstruction by.! these mem The secretary of the association said.} that no men had been appointed by the » association as parking attendants lor j the past two years, and all those already j in their employ were of proven good j character. The association had rßcsrred ! similar complaints and had closely j questioned the attendants. Some men! had been caught putting on caps and ] pretending: to be authorised by the' A A. Ahut these had been warned on I by the police. He was convinced that j it was not the attendants authorised j by the A * A who were causing trouble- ( | hut unauthorised attendants at places i 1 where there was no AAA man on dtrrv. j