RIDING ON TRUCK.
YOUNG MINERS PROSECUTED. WARNING FROM MAGISTRATE. [BY TELEGRAPH. —OWN COURESI'ONDENT.] WHAN GAR EI, Tuesday. Two young miners, George Marshall and diaries Quoripcl, were charged in tho Whangarei Magistrate's Court to-day with unlawfully riding aboard a moving truck on the surface endless-rope tramway of the Ilikurangi Coal Company's mine withour first obtaining the manager's consent in writing.
Job Mackinson, the manager, stated tho facts of the case, and said tho present cases weft) not taken to secure penalties but rather to act as warnings to other miners.
The magistrate, Mr. . J. 11. Luxford, convicted hoth accused and ordered tlicm to pay 10s costs.- Tie warned them that tho next similar ride would be a dear ono, as the maximum lino of £2O would bo inflicted. '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20115, 28 November 1928, Page 14
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