TAXIS IN DEMAND.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 6

TAXIS IN DEMAND.

Stratford Proprietors’ Record Month. Stratford taxi proprietors seem to have been receiving their share of the improved ionditions that have be.-n a feature of local business generally during the past twelve months. Questioned by the “Central Press” this morning, all were emphatically of the opinion that .the last four weeks have been the best they have experienced since the beginning . of depression. One driver produced diary records to show that his takings were a full twenty-five per cent ?re v?r than for the corresponding l n iod last year. The increased custom is apparently largely due to higher wages and better conditions in the country areas. A large proportion of the town journeys are for woiking people and others of moderate . comes who do not possess cars of th ir own. Proprietors, however, are inclined to attribute the increased business more to an increase in t’ numiber of country people who use taxis to come to town when going on holiday. Asked whether they thought the unusually wet weather had been an important factor in increasing their returns the drivers pointed out that while this had given them a greater number of short journeys in the 1 town, this type of work was not very ip: fitable in a town of the size of • Stratford. On the other hand, the i weather conditions had deprived them of many of the longer journeys to Mt. Egmont resorts.