HIGH TAXI-CAR SPEEDS
Speed is apparently the essence of every contract in Ceylon. A New Plymouth audience was recently told of the speed, tho dangerous speed, at which the taxicars travelled on the road between Colombo and Katidy, and the speed with which an inquest on a woman run down was disposed of.
Speed in another direction Was noticed by Father P. J. Minogue when he visited Colombo on his way to Ireland. At 10 o'clock in the morning the native laundrymen came aboard the ship, he told the parishioners at his welcome home recently. At 4 o'clock this same day they returned with the clothes washed, dried and ironed. But that was not all. In the morning the tailors arrived on deck offering to make suits. The passengers .were incredulous, but, sure enough, those whose measurements were taken' had the finished articles delivered to.them by 4 o'clock in-tho afternoon*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21404, 31 January 1933, Page 5
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