THE COUNCIL AND THE CABBIES.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 39, 15 July 1874, Page 3

THE COUNCIL AND THE CABBIES.

To the Editor of the Globe.

Sib,—l observed by the report of the proceedings of the City Council on Monday night, which appeared in the “ Press ” yesterday. that the following letter was addressed to the City Council by the Secretary of Public Works : " I am directed by his Honor the Superintendent to inform you that the Government intend to carry out the provisions of sec. 33 of the Railway Tolls and Management Ordinance, 1872, and in view thereof to request you to be good enough to furnish the Government with a list of the hackney carriages, omnibusses, town and all other public vehicles plying for hire, which hold licenses from the City Council, together, with the names of the respective licensees, &c.” This is surely too bad of the Secretary for Public Works, it looks too much like “ piling on the agony,” for he must be aware that the poor City Council are not at present in a position to grant a license for a hackney carriage, nor have they been in a position to do so for some time past. The joke, if it was intended as such, is all the more cutting when it is remembered that Dr Foster and Mr Joynt are about to wade through a perfect pile of bye-laws, in order to ascertain their validity or otherwise. Oh, fie 1 Mr Secretary of Public Works, you need not have carried your sarcasm so cruelly far. Yours, &c. Ratepayer.