TAXI ENQUIRY

Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21940, 14 November 1936, Page 4

TAXI ENQUIRY

FINAL EVIDENCE TAKEN IN HAWKE’S BAY EIGHTY-THREE HOURS WEEKLY WORKED BY DRIVERS (PSX3S ASSOCIATION TILEOBAM.) HASTINGS, November 13. "We have obtained very full evidence. It is up to us now to do our best, and we hope we will, on the part of all concerned,” said Mr P. M. Butler, chairman of the Committee of Enquiry into the taxi town-carrying business, at the conclusion of the sitting at Hastings to-day. Mr Butler said that the taking of outside evidence was concluded, Hastings being the last of the outside districts where hearings had to be taken. He expressed the appreciation of himself and his colleagues of the manner in which owners and employees had co-operated in placing the facts about the industry before the committee. “On our return to Wellington, after our report has been prepared, it will be forwarded to the Minister for Transport, and thence to the Government,” he said. The manager of Cross Taxis said that his owner-drivers worked an average of 83 hours a v/eek, when he gave evidence before the committee at Napier. He asked for the regulation of fares and increases im MCtlia wntlt sueH n yfddiagg

A sergeant of police said that there was no speeding by taxis, and no taxi driver had been responsible for an accident during the last two years. In each of eight accidents concerning taxis In that time, the other party had been to blame. . The chairman (Mr Butler): I saw speeding by taxis in the town last night. ■