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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 771, 21 March 1910, Page 8

' Everybody' admits that a cab horse lias troubles of..'its' own. Bad drivers, slippery blocks, sleepy, waits outside hotels, for people who have lost count of time and are reckless' in expenditure, ; long, dusty, runs to races at top. epeed,'and midnight calls for doctors or nurses, all-pale. into insignificance' before the financial depreciation from which they .suffer... Evidence on this . point' was given by. .'witnesses before , 'the' Undertakers' (Cabmen's) Wages BoaTd at Sydney a few days ago, but there was a . substantial variation in . the estimate of fho depreciation supplied by two witnesses, so that the ; board will have to make a calculation for itself. One witness who owned cabs, and stated that fifty or more ■taxicabs on the. city streets would do the work of 200 cabs and horses, said . -that ''the annual depreciation of a cab "horse was £10, while another, who bas been 33. years in the industry,, esti-, mated it at £7 10s. As the average cost of a cab horse of good quality is about £25, it appears (says the ''Daily Telegraph") from the evidence' that after four years' work; in a cab a 'horse is only worth what it will bring for meat for the cat kind at the Zoo, and for its hide at a tannery. The horses one occasionally finds 1 between the shafts in front of him must .cer- ■ tainly have reached what may be , called the Emit" in depreciation.