Passengers arriving: by the s.s. Oronsay which berthed at Western wharf this morning found they had to make their way to the city as best they could, since the Auckland taximen combined in declaring the vessel "black" by way of protest against the Government's monopoly of tourist sight seeing trips.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 8
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50Passengers arriving: by the s.s. Oronsay which berthed at Western wharf this morning found they had to make their way to the city as best they could, since the Auckland taximen combined in declaring the vessel "black" by way of protest against the Government's monopoly of tourist sight seeing trips. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 28, 3 February 1939, Page 8
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