AN EARLY ARRIVAL
TAXI-DRIVERS CAUGHT NAPPING Wheu the Wahine arrived from Lyttelton at 5.50 a.m. yesterday there were only three taxis at the wharf to deal with over 500 passengers. One of the passengers on arrival in the city accosted a sleepy taxi-driver on one of the stands, and informed him of the harvest he was missing. Rubbing his eyes the driver said, “That's all right; you can’t pull my leg. Wahine isn’t due till 7.” “Well, seeing that I’ve just arrived in her, perhaps you will admit that I am right, was the reply. Then the taxi-driver began to wake up, started his engine, and raced for the ferry wharf, but before he reached there most of the passengers had departed. The quick run was made by the ferry steamer so as to give ample time here for the trip to Pictou; but, as the weather turned out to be wet with a rising sea in the Strait, the excursion was abandoned.
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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 8
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163AN EARLY ARRIVAL Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 79, 27 December 1928, Page 8
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