The majority of persons who drop off tramcars in motion aro never prosecuted, but once every little while somebody does the hurry off act in a clumsy style, slips, hurts himself, and. attracts attention (states ths Auckland “Star”). Then ho is interviewed by officials with notebooks and generally finds himself lined for a breach of tho by-law. A case in point was provided by Robert Dunstan, on Alarch 9, when ho was riding on a car on College Hill, Auckland. Doubtless ho had jumped off trams in motion hundreds of times beforo, but this time ho failed to find his foot, and ended up on tho broad of his back just as tho car was stopped, else his outstretched logs might have been summarily amputated by tho rear wheels. Ho was fined £1 and costs £1 1s-
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Dominion, Volume 16, Issue 171, 7 April 1923, Page 16
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