TAXI SERVICES
Per Press Association. CHRISTCHURCH. Oct. 2. Subject to the approval of the committee of inquiry, on whose suggestion the conference was held, a meeting fully representative of the taxi interests of Christchurch to-day agreed to operate generally under the conditions prescribed by the taxi drivers’ award of 1931, with the exception of the provision of that award as to wages, and with special provisions regarding any overtime worked by owner-drivers. • A wage rate for taxi drivers of £3 12s 6d a week plus overtime was agreed on at the conference, and will be submitted to the committee of inquiry as a reasonable rate. The agreement reached at the conference will also, it is believed, end the illegal practices which have been complained of in evidence before the committee. Having agreed that some reduction of the number of taxi licenses in the eitv was desirable, the conference will suggest that this should be brought about gradually bv the natural lapse of licenses or by voluntary surrender. The Christchurch sitting of the committee ha.s now ended.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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176TAXI SERVICES Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 262, 3 October 1936, Page 2
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