IS A TAXI A CAB?
AN INTERESTING POINT.
(Per Press Association.)
AUCKLAND, May 7
1 An unusual defence was raised in the Police Court when three taxidrivers were charged with having left their motors on the stand without attendance, thereby breaking the toy-law which provides that the driver of a cab must not, while his vehicle is standing for hire, be more than tea feet distant from it.
Mr. A. E. Skelton, for the defendants, submitted that a taxi-cab was not a cab' within the meaning of the by-law and, If it were, he argued that the by-law was unreasonable, it might be reasonable as appliled to a non-mechanically propelled one. He pointed out further that on-each taxi-stand there was* a telephone fjr the convenience of clients, and each time a driver went to the box he ,'nfringed the law relating to the ten. feet radius.
It was ultimately decided to adjourn the case for lega^ argument on the law points involved.,
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7565, 8 May 1919, Page 5
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162IS A TAXI A CAB? Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXVI, Issue 7565, 8 May 1919, Page 5
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