"GOING TO CLEAN THEM UP”
THE TAXI SYSTEM ABUSED BY CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS [Pjsr Ukitbd Press Association.] AUCKLAND, July 4. The Minister of Transport (Hon. R. Semple) stated this morning that he was instituting a commission of inquiry into th© Wellington taxi system and hoped to extend the inquiry to cover the whole of New Zealand. As the system existed at present it had been ‘abused by certain individuals until it had reached a position where it was a disgrace to the count O'. “ The Government is going to clean them up,” he declared. “ I believe that more or less the same conditions as in Wellington are ruling in other centres. The wages and conditions of some of the. drivers are nothing short _of slavery, some night drivers earning about/£1 weekly and getting sustenance to keep them. “ The question of owner-drivers to some extent is equally' as bad, some not owning one spoke of the wheel of the cars they drive.” Mr Semple hinted that one of the methods under consideration would be the fixing of fares, so that the scale would be the same right through the Dominion. There was not going to be cut-throat competition, sweating, or pirating of any kind.
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Evening Star, Issue 22382, 4 July 1936, Page 19
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