COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY

Southland Times, Issue 22993, 12 September 1936, Page 8

COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY

TAXI AND CARRIER BUSINESS (From Our Parliamentary Reporter). Wellington, September 11. The Government has decided to set up a committee of inquiry to investigate all the aspects of the taxi-cab and town carrier business throughout the Dominion, according to an announcement made this evening by the Minister of Public Works (the Hon. R. Semple). The members of the committee will be Messrs P. M. Butler, of the Wellington City Council, and J. Walker, a well-known carrier of Masterton. The Minister said that his decision had been made following many representations made to him concerning the necessity for investigation into the taxicab system and the operations of town carriers. A thorough investigation of the position would be made, and the committee would report on the measures to be adopted for better organization, regulation and control. “The men appointed,” said Mr Semple, “have a sound knowledge of the problems to be dealt with, and I am convinced that their investigation will result in the conditions in these two important branches of the transport system being materially improved. I am arranging for the investigation to start immediately, and the principal towns in New Zealand will be visited so that the various parties interested may be afforded an opportunity of presenting evidence to the committee.”