TAXIS BOYCOTT SHIP
Protest At Government’s Sight-Seeing Monopoly By Telegraph—Press Association. AUCKLAND, February 3. The drivers of two* principal taxi companies and private taxis combined this morning to boycott the cruise liner Oronsay on arrival from Brisbane. This was by way' of protest against the Government’s monopoly of tourist sight-seeing trips. As a result passengers who disembarked at the distant Western Wharf owing to port congestion had to walk to hotels in the city. Pickets were placed at the end of the wharf warning drivers of the boycott. A subsequent meeting decided to boycott all wharves for taxi city traffic from overseas ships till a satisfactory agreement is reached with tlie Harbour Board, 'the Transport Department, and the Tourist Department.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 112, 4 February 1939, Page 10
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