NO HIGHER FARES

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 898, 15 February 1930, Page 12

NO HIGHER FARES

REPORTS MISLEADING SAY? TAXI OFFICIAL " CONFERENCES CONTINUE “There has been some standing, and announcements »i? er ' have been made concerning the * leh conferences held between repre«» B ' lives of the three leading taxi “ ta ' panies in Auckland have b-en leading, and in some cases absnln,/' false.” said Mr. Percv Free man, director of the Checker Taxi Df pany, when interviewed this mom "T° enlighten the public, which ha, certainly been misled, it would nk sibly be better to tell the story ” £?£,' Mr. Free. The conference was’calleH at the instigation of the mimernn owner-drivers associated with th companies, for the purpose of do! cussing certain points raised by th owner-drivers, who in -Auckland the present are having a hard row hoe. It was decidedly not called for the purpose of discussing the fixation of prices or the limitation of flee.. These points were not brought ud : continued Mr. Free. v

The conference, which included representative from the three co~i panies—Checker, Chess, aid Black and White —met on Wednesday, and thp points raised were thoroughly dis cussed, but there were no decisionarrived at. The conference was con tinued again yesterday, but again n.> were made, and it is j n . tended to continue the conference ne.v Tuesday. Regarding a statement made by the secretary of the company to the effect that the Checker Company was rot a party to any suggestion or proposal made at the first meeting of the representatives of the taxi companies, and that it wished to be absolutely diFsociated with the scheme Mr. Free said that the wrong impiession was certainly given, for it was intended to convey the information that the Checker Company was not taking ar.v part, in formal meetings of the companies for the purposes of discussing the fixation of prices and the limits ticn of fleets. The conference, however, was not considering those points.