TAXI-FARE NOT PAID.
MAN FINED FIVE POUNDS. PROSECUTION AT WELLINGTON. [BY TELEGRAPH. —rRESS ASSOCIATIO J ] WELLINGTON. Sunday. For having failed to pay the hire of a taxi, Leonard Walter Corlett, aged 32, a labourer, was fined £5 in the Magistrate's Court yesterday, and was ordered to pay the fare, £2 5s 9d, in default one month's imprisonment. It was stated that Corlett engaged the taxi to drive about with some women. He then said lie had no money to pay. Accused was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within 12 mor.ths on a charge of incurring debt by fraud. It was alleged he said he was a farmer and got a car on hire overnight, paying a deposit of £5. He was given two days more use of the car, but had not paid the bill of £25. When the car was located one of the windows was broken.
A condition of the sentence on the latter, charge is that Corlett pays the balance, £2l, within two months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19939, 7 May 1928, Page 11
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