“A STUPID CASE”
RAILWAY INSPECTOR’S ACTION MINOR BREACH OF REGULATTIONS.
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Nov. 28. “This is a stupid case,” said the magistrate, Mr. F. K. Hunt, when evidence had been heard against two young men, charged with smoking in a non-smoking railway carriage. One was also charged with using insulting language to railway officials. The inspector said that one of the defendants refused to give his full name, and would produce no papers, but said, “No wonder the railways don’t pay when there are —like you snooping about.” Counsel for defence said the case was ridiculous. The inspector said that he wanted to make sure where the men worked so he followed them up the road. The magistrate: “You had no right to do that. You are not a policeman. You were asking for trouble.” Without calling on the defence the magistrate ordered defendants to pay costs, for smoking, and dismissed the other charge as trivial. “Railway officials should have 'been- more discreet. It is not a very nice thing for respectable people to have to turn out their pockets for officials. I know I would not have done it,” said the magistrate.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 29 November 1930, Page 4
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