TENDENCY TO SPEED
TAXIS IN DUNEDIN POLICE EVIDENCE (Per Press Association.) DUNEDIN, this day. When the Taxi Inquiry Committee resumed this morning Police .Sergeant Boulton, answering questions, stated that there was a tendency for taxidrivers to speed because, being paid on commission, thev desired as many jobs as possible. There hail not bee:' such a tendency when the wage system operated.
There had been 2.3 accidents during two years in which taxisi were involved, mostly occurring at intersections, which possibly inferred speeding, he r.ddcd. Fourteen of these accidents concerned commission drivers, who, be. considered, worked for long hours, lie considered that the detecting of too Itigh speeds should be in the hands of specially trained police throughout New Zccinnd. Sergeant lionlton expressed the opinion that, no one under 21 years of age was fit to drive a car.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19140, 8 October 1936, Page 6
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