§ Select Committee appointed to inquire into the following questions relating to 342 Cabs and Omnibuses in the Metropolis: —(1) The means to be adopted to prevent the use of drivers' and conductors' badges and licences by unlicensed persons, and the fees charged for those badges and licences; (2) the restrictions imposed on Cabs when not carrying passengers; (3) the restrictions imposed by railway companies on the admission of Cabs to their premises; (4) the structural requirements to be enforced with regard to Cabs and Omnibuses driven by mechanical power; (5) The scale of Cab fares, and particularly the question of the extension of the four-mile radius, and modifications (if any) to be made in the case of Cabs carrying taxameters.
§ The Committee was accordingly nominated of, Mr. Armitage, Mr. Allen Baker, Mr. Bowerman, Mr. Cullinan, Mr. G. A. Gibbs, Mr. Cecil Harmsworth, Mr. Keswick, Mr. Lambton, Mr. M'Killop, Mr. Norman, Mr. Partington, Sir Samuel Scott, Mr. Stanger, Mr. Steadman, and Mr. Wiles.
§ Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.
§ Ordered, That Five be the quorum. —(Mr. George Whiteley.)