FREE FERRY TRIPS

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 104, 26 January 1933, Page 9

FREE FERRY TRIPS

Warning to Offenders In the Lyttelton Magistrate's Court, Thomas Patrick Cuttle, aged 46, was charged before Justice of the Peace with travelling on the steamer Wahine on January 21, from Wellington to Lyttelton, without first paying his fare, and with intent to avoid payment of same. He pleaded guilty. Sergeant Duulop said that about twenty minutes after leaving Wellington on Saturday night the purser on the Wahine found the accused on board. He had no money, and told the purser lie had gone aboard to see friends, and did not Intend to travel by the vessel. Ou previous occasions the purser had found Cuttie on board, but had put him ashore. At the request of the accused, the purser, Frederick Spencer Hamlin, went into the witness-box. In reply to the accused, the witness said that he had put Cuttie off the ship on two occasions, about two or three months ago. Cuttle said he was in the lock-up three months ago, and denied that he had ever been put off the ship. The Bench said that they were determined that the practice of travelling without paying should stop. Accused had a lengthy record and he would be fined 40/- and ordered to pay the amount of his fare, £l, in default one month’s imprisonment.