INVESTIGATION ORDERED

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21886, 12 September 1936, Page 14

INVESTIGATION ORDERED

+ Carrier and Taxi-Cab System PRINCIPAL CENTRES TO BE VISITED rFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.! WELLINGTON, September 11. The Government has decided to set up a committee of enquiry to investigate all aspects of the taxicab and town carrier business throughout the Dominion. This was announced this evening by the Minister for Public Works, the Hon. R. Semple. The members of the committee will be Messrs P. M. Butler of the Wellington City Council, and J. Walker, a well-known carrier, of Masterton. The Minister said his decision had been made following many representations made to him about the necessity for an investigation into the taxi-cab system and the operations of town carriers. A thorough investigation of the position would be made under the following order of reference — to make enquiries into the town carrier and taxi-cab system within the Dominion and, with a view to their general efficiency to the public, promoting their co-ordination with other forms of transport, and improving the working conditions of persons engaged; to consider and report what measures if any should be adopted for their better organisation, regulation, and control. “The members appointed,” said Mr Semple, “are men with a sound knowledge of the problems to be dealt with, and I am convinced that their investigation will result in conditions in these two important branches of our transport system being materially improved. I am arranging for the .-investigation to start immediatly and the principal towns in New Zealand will be visited so that the various parties interested might be afforded an opportunity of presenting evidence to the committee.”