A visitor to. .Wellington, who has been sight-seeing a good deal during the holidays, says, he wants to return to Auckland, and get “fare” play from the taxi-drivers, whose meters always agree in the Queen city. The Aucklander says that durine his month’s stay in Wellington he has never yet been able to get two taxi-meters to agree over the same distance. One day he pays a certain fee, while the next, for the same journey, he is charged more, or lesp- -generally more. “It’s only a matter of a few pence, certainly,” he says, “but at the same time it is rather, strange how meters fhere differ, and one, according to the faro, finds oneself living a quarter of a mile less or more away from the city every night.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5372, 9 January 1929, Page 3
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