UNFAIR COMPETITION.
[To the Editor.] Sir,—lt was rather one-sided of the Borough Council last evening to allow Cr. Beecroft to stand up and plead his case in the complaint laid by the cabdrivers against him plying for hire on the railway station, and not ask the other side to prove the charge, which they could easily have done. This is not the only complaint they have had against Mr Beecroft, but it has always been a difficult matter to prove. The members of the Council might have considered this one charge on its merits. If this thing is allowed to continue, you can understand the position the other cab-drivers are placed in. We are not allowed to ply for hire at the station, but the gentleman in question is allowed to meet every train. If we receive a wire to meet a passenger, that passenger must find us out. It is the other way about with Mr Beecroft apparently, and the poor striving cab-driver with a family is thus heavily handicapped in his endeavor to make a living. Hoping the injustice will not continue.—l am, &c., J. Maeoney.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 88, 7 August 1896, Page 2
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188UNFAIR COMPETITION. Hastings Standard, Issue 88, 7 August 1896, Page 2
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