AGREEMENT REACHED
CHRISTCHURCH TAXIS
END OF LONG WAR
(Per Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, hist night
Subject to five approval of the committee of inquiry, on whose suggestion the conference was held, a mooting fully representative of the taxi interests of Christchurch to-day agreed to operate generally under the conditions proscribe,<l by the taxi drivers’ award of .1931, with the exception of the provision of that awtud as to wages,* aml with special provisions regarding any overtime worked by owner-drivers.
A wage rate for taxi drivers of £3 ,13s (id per week, plus overtime, was agreed on at the conference, and will be submitted to the committee of inquiry its a reasonable rate. The agreement reached at the conference will also, it is believed, end the illegal practices which have been complained of in the evidence before the committee. Having agreed that some reduction of the number of taxi licenses in the city was desirable, the conference will suggest that this should be brought about gradually by the natural lapse of licenses nr by voluntary surrender.
The Christchurch sitting of -the committee is now ended.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19136, 3 October 1936, Page 8
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