TAXI INQUIRY
COMMITTEE RESUMES AT DUNEDIN POLICE SERGEANT QUESTIONED (By Telegraph—Press Association) DUNEDIN, This Day. When the Taxi Inquiry Committee resumed this morning, Police-Ser-geant Boulton, answering questions, stated that there was a tendency for taxi drivers to speed, because, being paid on commission they desired as many jobs as possible. There had not been such a tendency when the wage system operated. There had been 23 accidents during two years, in which taxis were involved, mostly occurring at intersections, which possibly inferred speeding. Fourteen of these accidents concerned commission drivers, who he considered, work too long hours. He considered that the detecting of too high speeds should be in the hands of specially trained police throughout New Zealand. Police Sergeant Boulton expressed the opinion that no one under 21 years af age was fit to drive a car.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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138TAXI INQUIRY Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 8 October 1936, Page 7
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