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TAXI-DRIVER’S SPECIAL TRIP
(From Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON, To-day. Reserved judgment was given by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to-day in a ise in which J. Wright, of Tauranga, ■x taxi driver, was charged with plying for hire with a car in Hamilton borough, the car not being licensed as a motor-cab under the borough bylaws. On October 20 defendant took passengers from Tauranga to Te Rapa races, but while in Hamilton he parked his car in the main street and displayed a “Races ’ notice on it. He also drove people from town .to the races. The magistrate said the effect of the Motor Vehicles Amendment Act, 1927, jyas that so long as a car was licensed by the local body in whose district it was garaged, it did not require any -irther licence when it plied for hire outside the district so long as it did not ply regularly between two terminal points v. ithin districts of different local authorities. The prosecution was therefore dismissed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 13
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