"REALLY A PARASITE."
JOY-RIDING UN TAXIS. YOUNG MAN SENT TO GAOL, ; "He is really a parasite, sir,remarked Chief Detective Cummings in the Police Court on Saturday, when Harold Frith, aged 25, appeared before Mr. J. W. Poyuton, S.M., on a charge of having incurred a debt of £2 9s 9d for taxi hire by fraud. He pleaded guilty. Constable Power said that accused engaged a taxi, and went with a party of men and women for a drive. He told the taxi-driver that he was a partner in a city firm, and so obtained credit. The representation was untrue. The chief detective said it was another case of young men going joy-riding. This was not accused's first offence in the way of false pretences. Taxi-drivers were complaining that men went to them saying < they were sons-of business men or something of the kind, whereas they had not enough money to- buy a box of matches.
A sentence of threee- months' imprisonment was imposed. Accused also appeared on a charge of breach of maintenance. His wife said an order for £1 a week was in November, 1924, but that not a penny'had been paid. .The. magistrate remarked that the wife would never get anything out of accused. She would have to earn her living without relying on the order.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19258, 22 February 1926, Page 10
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