TAXI-DRIVERS
MINIMUM AGE LIMIT By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, June 22. A minimum age limit of twenty-four years for taxi-drivers was recommended by a meeting of the New Zealand Road Safety Council. The Minister of Transport (the Hon. R. Semple) said that there were good and substantial reasons why this should be done. Taxi-driving was no good for a lad in his teens or in his early twenties either. He was dragged into an environment in which his whole moral outlook might be wrecked. It was a job for mature men whose standards of outlook had become fixed. The meeting advocated that the minimum age should be twenty-four years, with exceptions in special cases down to the present minimum age of twenty-one years and provided that present taxi-drivers should not be deprived of their licenses.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 5
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134TAXI-DRIVERS Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21379, 23 June 1939, Page 5
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