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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 9

That the iaw did not prevent any normal person of good character who holds a motor-driver's licence from becoming a taxi-driver was commented on by Mr Justice Smith in the Supremo Court at Wanganui, when a farm labourer. who had been driving a taxi when an accident happened, came before him for sentence on a charge of negligent driving causing bodily injury. His Honour hinted that some stricter test of driving ability should be looked for. and the law tightened to that end. He said that the comprehensive motor insurance rate had recently been increased because of the high accident rate, and, from figures published and his own observations, it seemed that taxi-drivers were chief offenders in breaking city traffic rules. That was perhaps because there was nothing in the law to prevent any normal person who held a motor-driver's licence from becoming a taxi-driver.