TAXI INDUSTRY
MOVE IN SOUTHLAND COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY (P.A.) INVERCARGILL, Oct. 20. At the request of the Southland Drivers’ Union, a committee has been appointed by the Southland Trades Council to investigate the taxi industry in the city with reference to hours of work, wages, conditions of employment, engagement of “seagulls”, issuing of drivers’ licenses and other matters. Mr. D. Harris, secretary of the union, said at a meeting of the council that it was high time the taxi industry in Invercargill was thoroughly investigated. Drivers could be worked 60 hours a week without overtime. Men in other jobs were driving taxis in their spare time. Mr. G. Smith said that since the recent trouble in Dunedin taxi men there received a 40-hour week, with 3d an hour extra for the next 10 hours and 1 overtime rates thereafter. He did riot see why the Invercargill men should not have the same rates, which would no doubt have been awarded had they struck in support of the Dunedin mpn. In his opinion, there was a need for an investigation into the taxi business throughout the Dominion. In some centres there was practically monopoly control.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 20 October 1947, Page 4
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194TAXI INDUSTRY Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 20 October 1947, Page 4
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