TAXI TELEPHONES
MUNICIPAL EXCHANGE
PROPOSAL TO COUNCIL
A DECISION DEFERRED
A proposal flint the City Council should assume ownership, control and operation of all taxi telephones on stands in' the city, and that, n.s from tlie time the system came into operation, all existing taxi telephone privileges should be cancelled, anil no further private telephones 011 streets permitted, was submitted to the council last evening by its Legal and By-laws Committee. The committee recommended that the necessary financial provision should bo made in the 1933 34 estimates.
The chief traffic inspector, Mr. O. R. Hogan, in it report, stated that there were 37 taxi stands in the city. Four taxicab organisations operated telephone systems, three of the switchboards being hired from the Post and Telegraph Department and one owned by tho company concerned. Tho cost in each case was defrayed by a weekly levy on cabs using tho service. Mr. Ifogan estimated that a plant, including switchboard, telephones and accessories, to handle 300 cabs, could bo purchased for £1350 and could be run at a cost of £4610 per annum, including the wages of a staff of 21, giving a continuous day and night service. Space for the exchange was available in .the Town Hall basement. A charge of £1 a cab weekly could be made in the first year and reduced later if finances warranted.
Mr. Hogan considered (hat llio majority of (lio individual owner-drivers would ■welcome a unified system and there would ho no difficulty in compelling (ho companies (o adopt it. All cabs should then he painted alike, but certain drivers could still ho grouped under particular numbers if they desired.
Letters were received from tho Chess and Atta taxicab companies, stating that they were opposed to having tho control of taxicab telephones taken from them, and asking to bo given an opportunity of appealing before tho committee appointed to consider the proposed new svstem.
In view of this, the matter was referred back to tho committee for further consideration
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21349, 25 November 1932, Page 12
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333TAXI TELEPHONES New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21349, 25 November 1932, Page 12
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