TAXI FARES

Evening Star, Issue 21752, 21 June 1934, Page 6

TAXI FARES

CITY COUNCIL BY-LAW At its meeting last evening the City Council took the initial step in the passino- of a by-law fixing the. maximum and minimum fares for taxis. The matter will ba confirmed by the. council m four weeks’ time. T t The question was outlined by Cr J. Li. M'lndoe (chairman of the General Committee), who spoke to the following clause of the committee’s .special report : —The committee has given considerable attention to the question of a revision of the taxi fares to operate in terms of licenses issued to taxi drivers. Conferences have been held with representatives of the taxi drivers licensed under our by-law, and the committee now submits a revised schedule of fares as set out on the plan. The amounts' shown on the map are to be the maximum fares chargeable - in the respective areas delineated, while, in terms of the amended legislation passed during the last session of Parliament, the minimum fare that it is lawful to charge is to be 6d less in each case than the amount shown on the plan. For example, within the area marked 2s such fee in that case shall not exceed the amount named, while, likewise, no fare less than Is 6d could lawfully be charged. As the existing bylaw, passed before the amended legislation, provides only for a maximum fare, it will be necessary to amend the by-law to provide also for a minimum charge to bring the by-law in line with the recent legislation. The clause was adopted.