ADEQUACY OF TAXI SERVICES

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23944, 11 May 1943, Page 6

ADEQUACY OF TAXI SERVICES

♦ STATEMENT BY PROPRIETORS’ ASSOCIATION Except at intense peak periods, sufficient taxis—sometimes more than sufficient—meet trains .t Christchurch, according to a statement supplied to "The Press” yesterday by the Taxi Proprietors’ Association, through Mr F. J. Carroll (chairman). The statement referred to recent reports of the meeting of the Metropolitar Licensing Committee, at which the adequacy of taxi services, particularly at the railway station, was discussed.

"We would like the Licensing Authority to point out what business can cope with peak periods, especially similar to those of the recent Easter holidays, when all records for travel w’ere broken by a huge margin,” the statement adds, “and we quote Good Friday, when no fewer than about 3000 people arrived at or departed from the Christchurch station between the hours of 7 a.m. and 10 a.m„ with taxis ‘he sole means of transport. "It is our honest conviction that the taxi organisations accomplished a magnificent job over the holidays, which is in striking contrast to the position in practically every other centre in New Zealand.

“What the authority persistently and consistently refuses to realise is that a peace-time service is not applicable to war-time rationing of petrol and tyres, in spite of the exhortations of th: powers that be.”