FINES IMPOSED
ILLEGAL TAXI RUNS
LUXURY LINER TOURISTS
(By. Telegraph—Press Association.) ■ AUCKLAND, This Day.: Giving judgment in a case in which the Transport- Department prosecuted eighteen taxi-drivers for conducting an. unlicensed transport service from Aucklan dto Rbtorua in respect to tourists off the: liner Strathmore in November, the' Magistrate, Mr. C. R. Orr-Walker, fined seventeen of the defendants £5 j each • with costs. • ■ I
Anthony.Ralph de.Balfour, manager of the International- Tourist Bureau, of which nine of the drivers, were stated to be shareholders, was fined £10,. with costs,' on one of several charges of counselling and> procuring.a breach.of the transport regulations. The Magistrate said that the defendants' had been warned 'by a similar prosecution a year ago, and he had to impose a penalty which he considered, would deter- them .from repeat-ing-the-breach-of the law. - ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10
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134FINES IMPOSED Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 146, 17 December 1937, Page 10
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