THEY SMOKED IN WRONG CARRIAGE.
S.M. SAYS RAILWAY OFFICIALS ERRED. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND, November 28. “This is a stupid case,” said Mr Hunt, S.M., when evidence had been heard against two young men charged with smoking in a non-smoking railway carriage. One was also charged with using insulting language to railway officials. An inspector said that one defendant refused to give his full name, and would produce no papers, but said, “No wonder the railways don’t pay when there are like you snooping about.” Counsel for the defence said that the charge was ridiculous. The inspector said that he wanted to make sure where the men worked, so he followed them up the road. The Magistrate: You had no right to do that. You are not a policeman. You were asking for trouble. Without calling on the defence, the Magistrate ordered defendants to pay costs for smoking, and dismissed the other charge as trivial. “The railway officials should have been more discreet. It is not a very nice thing for respectable people to have to turn out their pockets for officials. I know I would not have done it,” said Mr Hunt.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 19239, 28 November 1930, Page 7
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