RAILWAY TICKET CASE.
OFFERED FOR RE - SALE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] WELLINGTON. Friday. An unusual case came, before Mr. F. K. Hunt, S.M., when May Annett was convicted and ordered to pay costs for having offered a railway ticket for sale. The charge, said Senior Sergt. Lander, was laid under section 26 of the Government Railways Act, 1908, and tho penalty for the offence was £20. The woman had coma from Auckland on an excursion and had been persuaded by friends to remain with thorn until after'the time when her ticket expired. She had advertised the ticket, which was a second-class return half, for sale in a local paper. This came to the notice of the authorities and she was summoned. She stated she acted in ignorance of tho law.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18089, 13 May 1922, Page 8
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