TERRORISING CHAUFFEURS.
AND CUMING TIRES. l'hero is ovidevico that the drivers of taxi-cabs aro being terrorised by a 5.60« tion of tlio strikers who Itfivo intimated that it will bo tho worst) for them and their cars if they aro found .assisting tho police in any way b.v carrying eonstables from point to point.. Tho tires oi 0110 car, which conveyed a certain party from tlio city to tlio Mount Cook barracks on Saturday nfaht, were badlj cut by someone. Samo of tho pro.prio< tors of taxi-cabs and public motor-cart-are bavins their men sworn in as s-po« rial constables in order tlvat they .may luivo tho authority of tho law behind tlioui in case of attack. One proprietor lias (fono to the extent of arming his ehauii'vurs with revolvers. Tim particulars of tho tirc-cnUins aro iis follow:—As tlio driver turned into Buckle Street ho beard tho sounq of air escaping, and on examination it was found that the tiro had received a slash from a- knife. Tho -cut was about an inch and a half lone - and tii-o ij-nifa which had been responsible for the dnnii ,i-ko was found sticking in .the tiro.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 6
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193TERRORISING CHAUFFEURS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1896, 3 November 1913, Page 6
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