TAXIS BOYCOTT LINER
ORONSAY TOURISTS WALK GOVERNMENT OPPOSITION RESENTED (United Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 3. Drivers of the two principal taxi companies and private taxis combined this morning to boycott the cruise liner Oronsay on its arrival from Brisbane. This was by way of protest against the Government’s monopoly of tourist sight-seeing trips. Consequently the passengers who disembarked at the distant western wharf because of berthage congestion had to walk to hotels in the city.
' Pickets were placed at the end of the wharf warning drivers of the boycott. At a subsequent meeting the companies decided to boycott all wharves for taxi city traffic from overseas ships until a satisfactory agreement was reached with the Auckland Harbour Board and the Transport and Tourist Departments.
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Southland Times, Issue 23734, 4 February 1939, Page 6
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124TAXIS BOYCOTT LINER Southland Times, Issue 23734, 4 February 1939, Page 6
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