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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16607, 10 December 1924, Page 5

During the past, fortnight the Borough trams carried 16,647 passengers and collected £lßl 2.1 2d in fares. On the Gladstone road service 11,859 pass embers were carried. £lls 9s 3 being collected: in fares, and on the Ormond road route 6788 passengers were carried, and £65 12s lid collected in fares.

The death in Sydney recently of Mr. Milton Sydney Love, one of the city’s best-known stipendiary magistrates, recalls a fine which he once imposed, and which, for its smallness, was probably a world’s record. At one of the busiest of the metropolitan courts, a young girl came before Mr. Love, charged with a breach of the railway traffic regulations. Mr. Love, having heard the facts, suggested the withdrawal of the information, hut because of Departmental restrictions on the prosecuting officer, this course could not he taken. . Mr. Love looked sympathetically at the little girl before him.

..“Very well,' then.’’ he said with the utmost gravity, “the fine is. mm penny, in default, uni:’minute’s imprisonment; and I will allow the accused twelve months in which to pay the fine.” The little girl paid her penny fine, and went her way rejoicing.