EXPIRED TICKETS USED ON TRAIN

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23845, 14 January 1943, Page 4

EXPIRED TICKETS USED ON TRAIN

TWO YOUNG WOMEN FINED

Two young women appeared before Mr E. C. Levvey, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Lyttelton yesterday on charges of using expired railway tickets. They were each fined 20s and publication of their names was ordered to be suppressed. The first was charged with having altered a railway passenger ticket with the intention of avoiding payment of the proper fare, also with tendering an expired railway ticket. Mr A. J. Malloy appeared for defendant, who pleaded guilty. Senior-Sergeant D. Wilson said that the young woman, when travelling to Christchurch, had presented the altered ticket to the guard. When challenged as to the use of the ticket, she produced a six-trip ticket, with which she paid the fare. She was quite frank about the matter when interviewed by the police'. j

Mr Malley said that his client was very sorry she had yielded to the temptation of altering* and using the ticket. She felt, her position most keenly. She had been eight years with a linn in Christchurch, where she filled a responsible position, anti contributed to the support of her mother, who was a widow. Jle asked that publication of her name be suppressed. The Magistrate said he did not find it easy In accept counsel’s plea that the woma i had yielded In sudden temptation. She was quite old enough to know what she was doing. He | would lake her good record into con- 1 sideration. On the first charge she | would be fined tins, and on the second i charge would he convicted and ordered to pay costs. He would order that the name he suppre : .-cd. j "I did not know that a similar charge against a second individual was coming up, Mr Malloy." said the Magistrate, when (he other young woman was wiargccl with using a. train ticket which had expired. ‘MI is apparently a practice. [ would not have been so lenient in the first case had I known about this mho. However, I have signori the register and it will have to Eland.” The defendant was lined 20s and ordered tb pay costs, and publication of her r ifrie was ordered to be suppress^'. iiianii in iif i l l in