TAXI-CAB DRIVERS & CITY COUNCILLOR.
4 „ DIFFERENCES STILL UNSETTLED. [To the Editor.]'. . Sir,—Your correspondents, Messrs; Butler and Fernandos, made their ■challenge "on behalf of all tho taxi-cab drivers on tho Featherston Street stand." They have now been driven to addressing you "on behalf of the remaining drivers of Featherston Street stand." i refer again to their false assumption of authority and irresponsibility in the matter o£ making statements in print only to show that their statements require to Ito, care.fully analysed before being taken for facts. I have no desire to afford them another loophole of escape from the penalties of their rash utterances.- I am willing to concede that my proofs'of incompetency must have reference to''"present" drivers. I am prepared .to'hold, over for the judgment of any .capable judge (personally I would prefer '/that you, sir, be appointed to settle the matter) tho question as to whether a taxicub driver's record during, say, the past twelve mouths is not a more proper test' of his competency for street driving than his passing of certain specified tests, in which ho must know that his reputation as a driver is at stnke. I reiterate my statement that one of our present-day drivers may have proved himself' wholly , incompetent in his driving up to the pro- ,, sent, and that this fact cannot be overlooked in testing his competency to-day. This statement, contained in. my last letter, your correspondents completely ignored in their reply of yesterday.^ I have placed in your hands, in response to the challenge, my cheque for <£o. Will your correspondents do likewise? Wo shall then know where we are, and any preliminary differences may be settled •in the way I have suggested. It is idle to wasto time taking unfair objections, and it would appear that Messrs. Butler and Fernandos have como -to realiso that they do not always write with a complete sense of responsibility.— I am, etc., J. E. FITZGERALD,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 31 May 1911, Page 6
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322TAXI-CAB DRIVERS & CITY COUNCILLOR. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1141, 31 May 1911, Page 6
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