POLICEMAN FINED.
RIDING ON A FOOTPATH. "There is not one law for a civilian and another for a police constable," said Ivlr. J. McNamara in : the Williamstown (Victoria) Court the other - day, when Owen Jones, police constable stationed at Newport/ admitted having ridden a, bicycle on a footpath at Yarraville. The ; constable asked for leniency as he had been in a hurry to deliver a sum- j mons. He was fined 20s with 2s 6d costs. The informant was John Ivor Thomas, j an ex-member of the' plain clothes constabulary, who went out yat •; the time ;of • j the police strike. " -• i
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18707, 13 May 1924, Page 11
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