CAN PLY ANYWHERE
SCOPE OF TAXI LICENCES HAMILTON LEGAL OPTION (from Our Oun Curreupondrnt) HAMILTON, Thursday. That as a result of an amendment °* tlie .Motor Vehicles Act. 1927. the council had no Dower to prevent persons whose vehicles were ga rased outside the borough from plying for hire Within the borough without a licence was the opinion given to the Hamilton Horougn Council last evening bv the borough solicitors, Messrs. Sw-arbrick and fcs war brick. I he ruling whs the sequel to a recent unsuccessful prosecution of a raunuiga taxi-driver who plied for *V rG ( I imilton or » the occasion of 10 Uai k;ito races without a special licence Irom tlie Hamilton Council. Tlk solicitors stated that the legij- ; tfun was intended to obviate tlio net. s. jtv of service car proprietors taking out a multiplicity of licences. r:d the iact tiiat taxi-drivers could now plv for hire in towns other than whern their cars were garaged was due to faulty draughtsmanship.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 13
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162CAN PLY ANYWHERE Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 531, 7 December 1928, Page 13
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