TAXIS RAISE FARES.
TELEPHONE BOOKING FEE. • ALLEGED BREACH OF BY-LAW. I (By Telegraph.—Press Association.* AUCKLAND, Saturday. Auckland taxi firms from midnight to-night will ask a telephone booking fee of 6d additional to the ordinary fare. The charge will not he made If a taxi Is hailed in the street or taken from a stand. Taxi men state that they recently asked the City Council for an increase in the flag fall charge from Is to Is Gd but the request was refused. “The booking fee of 6d is something new and is a contravention of the bylaw which states that the taxi faro will he Is for the flagfall and 6d additional per mile.” said Mr W. T. Anderton, M.P., chairman of the legal and by-laws committee of the City Council, Interviewed to-day.
Mr Anderton denied that the companies had been refused an amendment to the fares to meet changed conditions. Representations were made tp the City Council after it had appointed a sub-committee to Investigate the position. The sub committee had discussed the matter with the Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, ami the question was still under review.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 7
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191TAXIS RAISE FARES. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20254, 24 July 1937, Page 7
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