TELEPHONE BOX DAMAGED.
TAXI COMPANY'S PROPERTY. PENALTY OF FIVE POUNDS.
Describing the offence as a particularly inconveniencing one, besides being serious, Mr. W. R. McKean, S.M., in the Police Court yesterday convicted and fined Kenzie McLean, taxi-driver, £5 on a charge of wilfully damaging to the extent of £3 12s a telephone cabinet at Devonport, the property of the Checker Taxi Company.
"This appears to have been done out of spite," said Chief-Detective Cummings. The door of the cabinet had been smashed and the telephone wires cut, while the company's taxi-driver was away at night. Apparently the presence of the Checker Company's cars was resented. In fining accused, the magistrate remarked that he had no right to show his hostility in the manner in which he did.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 14
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