TRANSPORT SERVICE
PARTICIPANTS FINED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, Dec. 17. Giving judgment in the case in which the Transport Department prosecuted eighteen taxi-drivers for conducting an’unlicensed transport service from Auckland to Rotorua in respect to tourists off the ship Strathmore in November, Mr C. R. Orr-Walker, S.M., fined seventeen defendants £5 and costs each. Anthony Ralph De Balfour, manager of the International Tourist Bureau, of which nine of the taxi drivers were stated to be shareholders, was fined £lO and costs on one of several charges of counselling and procuring a breach of the Transport Regulations. . . In respect to ten of the taxi drivers who had been fined, the Magistrate said 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 lepeating a breach of the law.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 17, 17 December 1937, Page 8
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142TRANSPORT SERVICE Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 17, 17 December 1937, Page 8
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