"TAXI, SIR?"

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 8

"TAXI, SIR?"

THE HOLIDAY TRAFFIC

"Taxi, sir!' Taxi, sir!" Outside the stations and the entrance to the wharves the taxi men wait the year round in the hope of picking up fares, and sometimes business, or, so it appears, is not so good, but in the holiday period and particularly on the peak days just before Christmas and New Year's Day, when most people are travelling, they do not have to be so persistent with their "Taxi, sir? Taxi, sir?" Business is brisker, and thore are times when the manager of a taxi company no doubt wishes he had a fleet of caTs twice the size. But that is not to say that this Christmas the taxi proprietors reaped a harvest, although inquiries made to-day indicated that business had been fairly good and that there had been some heavy rush periods.

The representative of one big company informed a "Post" representative this morning that the business done by his company over the Christmas and New Year period compared favourably with that of last year. "As a matter of fact," he added, "we did rather better than we anticipated. New Year's time was our busiest period."

A proprietor of another company, which runs a fleet of twenty-five car's, said that the busiest days so far as his company was concerned were Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, aud New Year's Eve. At times on those days they were unable to cope with all the calls received for taxis. On the intervening days business was steady, but was nothing out of the way.