NEW TAXI LICENCE REFUSED
* CITY AUTHORITY’S DECISION Holding that the issue of a new licence was not warranted under the restrictions, the Christchurch Metropolitan Licensing Authority yesterday declined the application of William Barnett for a continuous passenger service licence. Objections to the application were filed by Blue Star and Gold Band Taxis'and Rink Taxis suggested that if further licences were to be granted they should be given' to companies which had suffered reductions. Gold Band Taxis wrote that, with the e” lination of pleasure and nonessential jobs, the present number of cabs in Christchurch was adequate to handle the work. The ends of justice, in view of the rubber and petrol shortages, would be defeated by granting new licences. “We realise that the public have at times, especially on the arrival of trains, to wait for taxis, but these occasions are not very frequent,” wrote the company; “but it does not warrant an increase of licences.” No action was taken with the application for a review of the licence- issued to F. D. L. Lucas “for the duration of the war when the licence definitely expires.”
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23741, 12 September 1942, Page 2
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