TAXI-DRIVERS' HOURS
COMMENT BY JUDGE
(Special to tne "Evening Post.") PALMERSTON N., This Day. "It is a shameful thing to expect a man to drive for 17 hours and have his wits about him," said Mr. Justice Reed in the Pahnerston North Supreme Court yesterday, when a | taxi-driver, charged with negligent] driving thereby causing bodily injury, had admitted not having seen the, train which had crashed into his car at a level crossing, with the result that two passengers were injured. The accident happened at 2 a.m., when the accused was conveying a party home from a dance. He had been on duty since 9 a.m. Answering a question by the jury, the accused said he was ,not compelled to work so longv but the position was that all the .drivers worked the. day shift and took it in turns to work the night shift. That meant he was on night duty as well as on day duty twice a week. He, was paid on a commission basis, arid did not know whether he would lose his job or not if he refused to work the night shift. He would have to find someone else to work it if he didn't. Taxi-drivers, he said, had no union.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 96, 20 October 1938, Page 27
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