RESERVED SEAT QUESTION.
•gUDGE AND TRAVELLER. “'NO POWER TO TURN HIM OUT.” (By Telegraph—Press Association.) HAMILTON, Monday. .Mr Wyvcrn Wilson, S.M., dismissed iho case in which a commercial traveller was charged with refusing to vacate a seat reserved between Frankton and Auckland for Mr Justice Hcrdman, holding that, according to the Railway Department’s regulations, seats could only be reserved for journeys of 300 miles or over, and the distance between Auckland and Frankton was only 36 miles. It was contended for the prosecution. that the department could re•serve seats for any distances desired. In this case they had been reserved :l'rom Wellington. The magistrate pointed out that they had not been ticketed “reserved.” There did not appear to be a statutory regulation governing the issue of tickets and enabling the department to reserve seats for less than 100 miles; -inAfce did not think the department haopower to turn the defendant out.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1925, Page 5
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151RESERVED SEAT QUESTION. Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1925, Page 5
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