LONG TAXI DRIVE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 615, 18 March 1929, Page 1

LONG TAXI DRIVE

fraud charge follows

When the taxi-driver ashed lor her ‘■ire, the accused told him to go to “ anil get the money,” said SerSfant Cruickshank in the Ouehuuga -Mice Court this morning, when Jean kiwlinga appeared on a charge of staining credit by fraud, n. R. Ferguson, the taxi-driver, said ■ai on February 15, he drove Sawl■“Ss from Symonds Street to the Do--rnnon Road terminus and then to the H°tel, Newton. After that they ' l sat to Avondale where, on her reto pay the fare, he took her u Av ’°ndale Police Station, but get- , S 110 satisfaction there, tried the ■'ewton Police Station, with similar results.

, at accused's request, drove start j er koine, where on arrival she tea swearing at him, and refused ° a penny. ,ohSr aat Cru i<*shank: Was she

kj* S3: She was sober at first, but R» ,® ot her home she was drunk, iiaii • tted that the fare of £ 1 Gs 9d m since been paid. Setth US f** sa *k ikat she expected to j a . h e . fare at home, but had only 10s a: ,h„ ° Use anc * sc “ke offered to pay tart T ate °f 2s 6d a week, which the ““' driver refused. lave a , maS ‘ Strate - Mr - F - H. Levien, tad nr ased tlj e benefit of the doubt ’ aarvp Sm r Sse<l tlle case - On a further ord er p breaking her prohibition £i Kaw lings was ordered to pay J « costs.