CAB FARES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 10, 12 July 1909, Page 8

CAB FARES.

An enquirer about cab fares has been the cause of a Post reporter ascertaining a few queer items ot news concerning tho use oi them. One is the fact that a passenger who requires to be driven from the railway station to Hobsonstreet would have to pay twice as much as a passenger who wanted to be driven from the same station to a point twice that distance away, but in another part of tlie city. Also, when a cab passenger is taken on the wharf he has to pay two sets of wharfage dues : ona for .himself, and one for the cab, at the rate of sixpence each. If the same cab picks up another passenger when leaving the wharf, that passenger will have to pay wharfage dues also. The correspondent, who seems to have a grievance, for he signs himself "Rooked," asks for official estimates of the fares that should be paid, between 7 and 8 p.m., for being taken by cab to various points. The answers, supplied by Mr, J. Doyle, city inspector, are as foflow: — From Thorndon station to wharf, between 7 and 8 p.m., 2s per passenger ; from Lambton station, Is 6d per passenger ; Wordsworth-street to wharf, 6s. 6d per passenger ; Wordsworth-street to Lambton station. 3s ; Wordsworthstreet to Thorndon station, 3s 6d. Wharfage is also paid by the passenger.

Arrangements are to be completed by the Wellington Boxing Af-sociation for a professional boxing match for £100 purse, between T. Tracy, of Wellington, and Unholz, a South Atrican boxer, who is now resident in Sydney. Tlie association will discuss the matter at a meeting to be held this evening. Mrs. Alice Brown, who was knocked down by a tramcar in Courtenay-place last Saturday week, was discharged from the hospital this afternoon. By the last English boat Mr. C. W. Palmer, secretary of the Navy League, received seven cases of maps and literature, as well as a large number of Navy League badges, for distribution amongst the schools and members. There are six parcels for Wellington and one for Wa nganui. Owing to illness, Mr. Palmer has been^.uucible to have tho consignment distributed, but he hopes to do so at an early date. Attention to correspondence connected with the branch has also been impossible for somo days, but will be dealt with as soon as Mr Palmer is sufficiently recovered from an onslaught of influenza. The Rev. W. A. Keay, Congregational minister at Alicetown, has resigned, it being his intention to return with his family to Australia. At the end of the present month he will conduct his last services at Alicetown. On Thursday last the final settlement took place for the purchase of the Auckland Opera House by the Fuller Proprietary for the sum of £22,000, states the Herald. Mrs. H. N. Abbott was the vendor, aml the first instalment of the purcha.se money will be paid over on the Ist August. The firm has had a five years' lease on the property, with right of purchase, and, on the expiry of the lease, purchase was decided upon. The Fuller Proprietary now own seven theatres in New Zealand — three in Dunedin, one in Christchurch, and two in Wellington, as well as leasing the Christchmch and Wellington Skating Rinks. At present it is not proposed to alter the Auckland Opera House, but later the stage may be moved to the opposite sidp of sli« binding. The attention of "those looking Cor a farm not weighted down with the cost of extensive improvements, and yet already prepared for a comfortable beginning," in directed to the 714 acres advertised in another column, to be sold by Mr. G. A. l-'airbrothor, at Cartcrlon, on Wednesday next. It i-> stated that 'while sufficiently distant fi-om the ccnlre.s of population to keep it? selling vnluo low, it is within tho limit! of good roads, tolaphonci, uud Atfecc bj*j»B9M and social comfart** j