IIACKNEY CARRIAGE BY-LAW.

Press, Volume XLVI, Issue 7246, 28 February 1889, Page 3

IIACKNEY CARRIAGE BY-LAW.

I At the Resident Magistrate's Ooor»| fchristeharch, yesterday, before 0. WaifceP foord, Esq., William Jackson was? I charged with driving aa nnlicenae^ vehicle; Joseph Williamson was Bimi|| I larly charged; also with driving tap, hire, not having taken oat a licence foJl: himself. The parties did not appear, anj| were fined, Jackson £1, and Willlaxneop £2; each to-pay costs. Thirty other casey dividedamongnineteencabmen,wereeaUin I on, bat the parties had taken ant license since the informations had been laid. Sβ i Whitefoord asked what the parties had fg say why they ahoold not be mulcted %0 costs. One of their number, epeaklog far the rest, who were nearly all absenSL said that formerly the City Council hm made a practice, before summoaaingji to warn the persons interested <* their intention, within a Riven ttmaf to do bo, and the result invariably waft (that nearly all the licenses were taken ojfjl the prescribed time. Tola year, am fsuch warning had been given, and the UM |censees had fallen into a kind of a trap. Zα^ I other years they had not been pressed,^ Ssometfmes till July. There was no wish tor |evade payment of the fee. Mr Whitafaonif Council had done wzoneg 'in allowing the licenses to remain nneauedW aor, for so long a peiiod. whatjffleyx fsbould have done was to fix c «»W' .period of grace—cay a n*°gt! b^?~J!z'7s\ tbateae wTOtioot notice. The,cabaw» o*;. IChristchurch were J* & , Ibody, as could be foand, «SE|^SSISS«2I *