CONTROL OF TAXIS
Measures Expected Next Month (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH. July 30. Lack o£ taxi traiiic regulation was one of the worst features of traffic cont oi today, said Mr. V. Haines, No. 3 'J rnnsport Licensing Authority, today, during the hearing of a case. everyone who travelled about in recent mouths must have had experiences similar to his own, he said. There v.-ere very few taxis to meet trains and pieamers, for instance, whereas these should be among their first calls. Taxis apparently had more profitable busiinss of some sort. In his own travelling recently he had not seen anything like an adequate number of taxis at trains and steamers. However, adequate measures of control had lieen promised and he said lie thought abuses would shortly lie stopped." He expected that committees ■would be constituted and con'rolling measures introduced early in August. ‘Taxis would have to confine their operations to essential services, travel to and from trains and steamers, and to ami from such places as hospitals
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 260, 1 August 1942, Page 3
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169CONTROL OF TAXIS Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 260, 1 August 1942, Page 3
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