Power to Cancel Licences Given Massey Group:
Overcharging Pullers Cited The Shanghai Municipal Council last Wednesday evening adopted the following recommendation by the Rickshaw Special Committee:
Recommended that the polley of the Rickshaw Board In suspending licences eases of overcharging, by rickshaw owners be approved: that the petition from owners protesting against. such Action be not entertained; Board be given power in future. per-Tanently {o cancel licences in serious eases, owners being required, if a Iivence lsmerely suspended, to continu the usual "payments for the privilege keeping gush licence on the Council's records, The matter came before the Rick: shaw Special" Committee in the monthly report presented by the Rickshaw Board and dated December 2, In this report the Board stated that the month of November had seen 9 vigorous campaign against overcharge Ing of rickshaw rentals to public rickshaw pullers. As a result of the new currency regulations, which came Into force on November' 4 and gave appreciated value to subsidiary silver coins, the Board issued a notice advising pullers to pay their rickshaw, rentals in big money and pointing onl that the equivalent on that particular day of half a day's maximum authori. ed rental (i.e, one shift), wag two twenty-cent pices and 28 coppers.
'The committee recommended that the renewal of private pullers' licences be made compulsory as from January. 1, 1986, the dargo for applicants after that date to be $1 instead of 50 cents.
The Council approved.
'Tre Board also proposed - that renewal of public. pullers' licences should commence on January 1, 1936, order to obtain a cheek on actual numbers. 'Tt was suggested that if the fee of 50 cents was decided upon, Payment should be made through the funds of the PALA.A., thus minimiz~ ing direct hardship to' individual pullets. Tt was mentioned that the French authoriiles charged only twenty cents for their original leences. but it was argued that holders of Settlement leences had more advantages, The Deputy Treasurer (Revenue) stated that he was instructed by the Treasurer and Controller to express the strong desire that the Rickshaw Board's Budget for 1936 should not exceed. the 1995 appropriation, He said that a reduction of the renewal fee to 20 cents would involve an ad~ ditional charge of about $12,000 on the 1086 Budget.
'Atler discussion, the Committee re Jcommended that renewal of public pulers' "Ucences be commenced
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