TRANSPORT REGULATIONS BROKEN
PROSECUTION AT AUCKLAND SUBSTANTIAL FINES IMPOSED I By Telegraph - Frees Association I AUCKLAND, This Day. Giving judgment in a case in which the Transport Department prosecuted eighteen taxi-drivers for conducting on unlicensed transport service from Auckland to Rotorua in respect to tourists off the ship Strathmore in November, Mr Orr-Walkcr,S.M., fined 17 defendants £5 each and costs. 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 oh 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 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 repealing a breach of the law.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 17 December 1937, Page 5
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