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Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 69, 22 March 1910, Page 2

Everybody admits that a ca*b horsehas troubles of its own. Bad "drivers,, "slippery blocks, sleepy waits outside ._ hotels for people who have lost count • — -time and are reckless, in expenditure. - long, dusty runs to races at top speed, -a— midnight, calls for. doctors or nurses, ail pale into in_gn_fccance before the financial depreciation from which they suffer. Evidence on this point was • given by witnesses before the TJnderJt_l—rs' (Cabmen's) Wages, Board at -.Sydney a few days ago, but there was -:-ti_ substantial variation- in the estimate _ of. the depreciation supplied by two wit.—.esses, so that the Board will have to. -"make a calculation for itself. One . witness, who owned cabs, and stated that - fifty or more taxi—bs' on. , the city streets would do the work of 200 cabs' and horses, said that the annual depre- i ciation of a cab horse was £10, while " another, woo has been 33 years in the ' industry;- estimated it at ■£7 10/-. As ' the average cost of a cab horse of good I quality is.about £2-5, it , appears (says , -the "Daily Telegraph")., from the evidence that after four years' work in a _ cab a horse is only-worth what it will •bring-for meat for the cat kind at the -Zoo, and for its hide at a tannery. The ; horses one' occasionally finds between the shafts in front of him 'must certainly have reached what may be called ■l.re limit in depreciation. Mr. Woollcombe, the C.E.M.S. secretary, continued his series of addresses at the -Chamber of Commerce, to-day. His subject was -'Decision." The speaker era- : "phasised the fact that the men who most came to grief were the men who drift without. having made any definite - decision on- the side of right .or'wrong. - 'Quoting a:'. New :;Ze—ander^s^statement on the tendency of .men- to shirk:'—anding alone, be said manliness was bound up with dividual, decision.' Woolicombe is to' speak on "Prayer" at St. .. Matthew's: to-night, and ■on "The-"Men ■ Who. Crucified "Christ", '..the" Chamber of Commerce to-morrow. V-;U- - ."....'- -V- 1 . V , Easter, holidays!. An'- immense variety ' of _ave]l_.g requisite's; of. every descrip- '." *.tibn- in ;"most approved : styles. . Lowest -■■ .prices. Smith and - Canghey,^L_d.-^-(Ad.) •\ "Wet ■weather!" Ladies' and"gent.'s ,- raincoats, mackintoshes : and-umbrellas, ;.- just"-' opened V: in new ~' and . attractive styles, ■ lowest - prices.—-Smith- and = Caughey, Ltd.—(Ad.) :., ;: ..; : : -_;_ : ;