OPOTIKI COUNTY COUNCIL

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 231, 8 September 1939, Page 2

OPOTIKI COUNTY COUNCIL

TAXI FARES FINING .OF CHARGES COM M ITTE'E/ SET IT CO-OITERATION. WITH' RiOROUGJri. A schedule of taxi lares charged in oilier .towns' ( was. read at to-days County Council pieeting. -. The schedule .. showed] fares, in most cases; '"the, same as those previously existing in Opotiki before the inertia sew. •Councillors expressed the opinion that fares in Opotiki were too high at present. Cr. Maxwell' moved that the fares, ho fixed•"nt- Ik Git in the borough and 7d per mile from the taxi stand wjidi a. minimum of Is (M. Councillors considered the Hanultou.. feres were u, little too lenient hut it was pointed out that petrol was eheap-i or there. Councillors expressed the opinion that’- the fares should ha ve , been submitted to .ti c- council. • Mr. Merry stated! that one proprietor had stood out and had not even, replied to his letter. 'l'he proprietors had "gone above the prices suggested at the previous council mooting. The chairman said that there,should be only a one-way charge. Cr. .Butler seconded Cr. Ala swell's proposal hut the! motion was not put . to> the meeting a 3. the council consider-, od that the matter should be gone in torn ore fully in conjunction with the borough eoimeil. A committee- was set up to co-oper-ate with the borough council with power to act.