MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

Northern Advocate, 23 August 1924, Page 6

MAGISTRATE'S COURT.

OFFENDERS DEALT WITH,

AUCKLAND, This Day. At the Magistrate's Court today, John E. Small was fined 250 for removing timber from the Northcotc timber reserve, the Magistrate remarking that the maximum penalty was £100. George Havord, for being drunk when in charge of a taxi which he was driving without the owner's permission, and for theft of a rug, was sentenced to one month's gaol on each charge. —Press Assn. Whether one travels abroad or at liome the practice of giving tips crops up at almost every turn; but probably the limit in the tipping evil is met with on the Home liners where passengers are more or less at the mercy of stewards. Writing from London to his father in Blenheim, a young man refers to the matter of tips (says an exchange). He said he purposely avoided causing the stewards any trouble in connection with his cabin, preferring to help himself in most things. However, towards the end of the voyage he felt he would like to give the cabin steward a tip and handed him a "couple of notes." Imagine the , donor's amazement when the man almost threw the money back at him, at the same time firing a query as to whether the tip wis meant for the pantry boy!