A fare cop
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• Two Rhondda Transport Company bu: conductors were each fined E30 with £1 advocate's fees at Ystrad magistrates' cour last week for stealing a total of 1s 9d from thei employer.
Michael Griffiths. 24, of Brook St., Bladn rhondda, admitted stealing is 1d. Willian Jeffrey Niblett, 22. of St. John Road, Tony refail, who pleaded not guilty, was convictei of stealing 8d. Niblett was also ordered to pa, £26 towards legal aid costs.
Mr. Colin Harris, prosecuting, said : "W may be dealing with the tip of an iceberg, a these may be isolated incidents, and all thes, offences occurred on one morning and wer detected as a result of spot checks whicl resulted from complaints at the last publi inquiry when bus fares were increased.
In evidence it was said that an inspect( from another company and an MoT inspectc in plain clothes travelled on Niblett's but Neither a passenger who alighted nor th inspector was given a ticket when offerin their 4d fares on alighting. When challenge( Niblett denied not having given tickets. L the end of the shift his cash showed 4d exces: Niblett told the court that he had never to h knowledge failed to issue a ticket whe receiving a fare.
Griffiths took only 7d for a '1 s 4d fare frot one plain clothes inspector and 6d froi another and did not issue tickets, said M Harris. When intervinvved later, Griffiths sak -I handed the excess money in."