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Here is a story that illustrates NZAO as we are today. Thanks government for modernising the country so we are more efficient and cheaper. Cheep-as-chips!
The 68-year-old woman and her husband were visiting Auckland to see their daughter. They had bought tickets to the Coldplay and The The concerts on Wednesday and Thursday respectively.
After the concert at the Kiri Te Kanawa Theatre in Auckland’s CBD on Thursday, the couple entered Aotea Square shortly after 11pm – wanting to get back to their daughter’s home in Mt Roskill before an early morning flight to Dunedin on Friday.
“We asked to go to a certain road in Mt Roskill. He didn’t know where it was so we had to spell it out for him,” the woman told the Herald.
“He put it in his phone and instead of going straight up the hill, he went around so we went through Spaghetti Junction … we should have known then.”
During the less-than-10km trip, the woman’s husband looked at the taxi’s meter and it read $80. “I said no, it must be $8,” she said.
The couple also noticed the driver wasn’t displaying his small passenger service licence – a legal requirement for all taxis and shuttles.
“When we got there he said it was going to cost $145 or something,” the woman said.
“The air was blue when he said the price.
“I abused him and I said, ‘Look this costs more than what it costs to fly up here mate’ and he just kept saying, ‘It’s metered lady, there’s the proof’ … he got rather loud and it was raining so I just paid it.”
She and her husband had to be at the airport for their flight at 6am and wanted to get inside and get some sleep…
…a Small Passenger Service Association spokesperson says the group has received “multiple complaints” about Crown Cabs – the taxi company in question……
It wasn’t until Saturday morning when the woman checked her bank statement and saw she was charged $163.43 by Crown Cabs – averaging out to be just over $17 per km.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/mediawatch/533992/proposal-to-close-north-island-community-papers-in-print-for-more-than-100-years
Read the reasonable, sorrowful tones from the paper. They could offer a public-private partnership but no. Big business, big bull and no interest in the noble background of newspapers whose tradition they have gobbled up as well as the publications. They have expertise, the locals could run it; have they given an option????? Or is it too little to worry about; ‘What me worry’!
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/country/533928/country-life-mobs-of-wallabies-demolishing-ancient-forest-prompt-iwi-action
Wallabies, rabbits. politicians, Oz cockroaches – all pests that need serious controlling.
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