TRANSPORT ACT
A MAGISTRATE’S DECISION
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GISBORNE, August .17
Magistrate Harper to-da.y held that taxis were exempt "from the necessity of obtaining temporary service licenses for race traffic to courses, within a reasonable distance of their headquarteHe dismissed an information against a taxi-proprietor who ran to the course during the recent, races, stating that the Transport Act intended to protect the roads from • undue traffic on defined service runs, and not to apply to operation of cars operating otherwise than on a defined route, as in the case of taxis.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 August 1932, Page 6
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