CITY CABS.
TO TOT BMTOa OT TOT PBWS. Sir,— Can you inform your readers how J it is ths* the city cabs, which are suppose! to be under tbe cootorol ot the Orty Coun- | cil, aro allowed to mcc from the cob stand ; when haiied by a "fore." I have seen on several occasions aome v«ry narrow escape* from pedestrian* being run over through this practice, and last Saturday a lady on a bicycle escaped by inches, through a cabman (whose number I have taken) lashin,/ his hor*e to racing speed in his endeavour to secure, before the other cabs, a fan- in front of the White Hart Hotel. In nil towns that I have visited the rule . is for the cab the first on the stand to -• take precedence, and on no account are ( ratbs allowed to race after a fare. Christ- \ church will be very full of visitors during i the next few days, and consequently cabs j will b? in great demand, and unless the j authorities deal with the matter sooner or later, a serious accident must eventuate. — [
Yours, etc., : PRO BONO PUBLICO. '
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 10995, 19 June 1901, Page 10
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