Chewing Permitted
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[?]G Taxi
Gulations
Betel-Nut Chewing Permitted
(From Our Own Correspondent) [E first set of regulations gov erning the operation of private and public hire-cars in Papua New Guinea were gazetted in ■uary. le regulations stipulate, among r things, that taxi-drivers must smoke, or “chew betel-nut” out the consent of passengers; : not leave the vehicle to tout passengers or permit the vehicle iter. At the same time, drivers ; be clean and tidy, wear re :able clothes and be civil to mgers or intending passengers. tether section of the regulations ibits drivers from sleeping, ?ing or eating meals inside vehicle or picking up other mgers without the consent of priginal hirer. e regulations allow drivers to le to accept as hirers anyone ring from an infectious or con >us disease, a person who is k or dirty, or noisy or violent. :tion 25 of the regulations sets that fares will be charged on leage basis.
Fares Are Too High
is, perhaps would be the best ; of the necessary and long ted regulations. Taxi fares are ►f all proportion to what might •egarded as a “fair thing,” ially in Port Moresby, is writer fails to understand the sity for the high fares. Vehicles lo dearer than in Sydney (some a lot cheaper); petrol is the price; and natives are em d as drivers. They, naturally, paid a lot less than a Sydney r, and the owner of a Sydney le never seems to complain. So ; owner of a Sydney unrestricted is making—and most of them a clear profit of about £4O per , it does not take much time )rk out what Port Moresby cab rs are making. •haps the two main operators n for a big shock soon, how if a permit to operate ten cabs mted to “an interested person.” pur has it that this “interested n” plans to “greatly reduce” ate of charges currently made, use a current expression: Port sby residents can hardly wait.
Justice Bignold, of the P-NG jme Court, has been appointed dent of the Papua and New sa Public Museum and Art ry. Plans for the Territory um are now taking shape. It ped to build an institution that •e an “outstanding credit to the bory.”