BRIDEGROOM'S DILEMMA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18471, 7 August 1923, Page 6

BRIDEGROOM'S DILEMMA.

SHORT OF SMALL change; I bajl- fare TO ■FRANKTO& 1 TbT TEtECRAPH. —OWN . COERESf •.'."■ >. • V HAMPTON. Mondaj. 1 . At Che Magistrate's Court, Hamilton,' '..".'I this moraine before 'Mr. H. A. '--Young,- -, S.M.-. William Harold Taylor, .livery stable proprietor, Te Afoha, and ' formerly Wm of Hamilton, was' charged with':-wUfqUyl||' and deliberately'travellingfor a greater distance 0n."... the., south-bound AtefclanH-, I Wellington express on May 29 IhaifEftlJp ticket entitled him to. , •^:^:''iMM ; " Evidence was ' civen by the impeetor ,-4 and ■ guards, of. the train.-that 'when.-tif«.| tickets were inspected it was •' found" thw If defendant had one for Frankton and ,oji| | for Mercer. '•;. He said ■; nothing . about-re- jj. quiring an, extension. _ - _'.'. '^'|^w» Defendant, in evidence, said that whjjß/toi he and ■ his wife arrived at the ' Auckland fetation they had only-a' few. ;minnt?slto|S; catch the train. ' Defendant had ) two £10 '■'.'. notes on him aDd about 16s in. silver. i; ; Having no time to. wait for 'change-he bought .a second-class ■ single v.' ticket "io'\ ,T Frankton Junction for his : wife l arid one to "Mercer 'for himself. He intended; later to get " an ) extension ; ticket \ from Mercerlo 111 Frankton. '. "' ' ■•.-;. .-.v.:,..;•■ \ The magistrate said that the department was right in bringing- - the & prosecution. - : ) : t However, there, was , .a,; reasonable as. to whether , defendant had attempted J to - ; defraud ■ the departiiait. Many 'a wiser -man probably thanh'e jad ! .overlooked > details -wlien; on, a. Montyigoda trip." The' information "'• would i Muduu missed.' . ;"•/,,•'* ■'. • V, I, '' " ; ■ feftf:.--