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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1474, 25 July 1918, Page 31

New motor signals are now in use in America. They are as follows: Arm pointed up means driver will turn to the right. Arm pointed straight out horizontally means driver will turn to the left. Arm pointed down means driver will slow down without turning.

The Borough Council received a complaint from a local resident (says the Manawatu “Standard”) against a taxi driver for failing to keep an engagement. The facts as set out were that the driver conveyed a party of visitors to the writer’s residence, and an arrangement was made that he was to return in the afternoon to take the visitors to the railway station. He failed to do so, and but for another taxi coming along they would have missed the train which might have meant a serious interference with business arrangements. The council also received an explanation from the taxi driver, who stated that he had had a bad puncture whilst fulfilling an engagement out of town, and could not possibly get back in time. Councillor Crabb said if a driver made an appointment he should arrange with someone else on the stand to keep the engagement if he could not do the work himself. It was .decided to ask the driver to meet the council over the matter.

“What is the average life of usefulness of a horse on the city streets?” a witness was asked at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court. “Seven or eight years generally, if the animal is well looked after,” was the answer, “but its useful life is by no means ended then, for it is good for several more years of farm work on soft ground.”