TAXI-DRIVER CHARGED
CARRYING LUGGAGE WITHOUT PASSENGERS NO CARRIER’S LICENCE Press Association CHRISTCHURCH, Wednesday. An unusual test case was heard in the Police Court to-day when Joseph Dyer, a taxidriver, was charged on the information 3 carrier, with driving an unregistered van. The action arose out of the custom of some taxi-men carrying luggage without passengers. . Counsel far informant said. This case has been brought as a matter of principle.” Carriers of Christchurch for a long time have objected to the carrying of luggage without passengers bv taxi-drivers, and it is a matter of importance to carriers, and also to taxi-drivers The by-laws state that a van must be licensed to carry goods lug'-age or merchandise, and it must be registered as a carrier’s van. A taxi may carry passengers and luggage That means that a passenger is entitled to take his personal luggag© in the taxi. The Magistrate: Then cannot I get a taxi to take my luggage to the station? What if I decide to walk, after being taken half the way? "in either case the driver would have to be registered as a carrier, sir,” said counsel. Befendant was convicted and ordered to pay costs.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 374, 7 June 1928, Page 1
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