TO INCREASE SYDNEY’S TAXI FLEET
100 EXTRA LICENCES Reed. 8.15 p.m. Sydney, July 19. About 2000 applicants will ballot for 100 extra taxi licences to be issued by the Road Transport Department in September. The Minister of Transport, Mr.
O’Sullivan, said ‘that 60 would go to ex-servicemen and that the ballot for the other 40 would be unrestricted. The allocation will increase Sydney’s taxi fleet to 1400. No new taxi licences have been granted since 1940, and during the war, because of the enormous demands for cabs, particularly for United States servicemen, a lucrative black market developed. Would-be taxi drivers paid up £2OOO for a taxi plate and plates belonging to men then in the forces were rented at high prices.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 90, Issue 167, 20 July 1946, Page 5
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