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PUBLIC WORKS AND UTILITIES

licensee may provide a properly qualified driver. No scale of fees is laid down by law for the hire of these cars and amounts charged vary in accordance with the type of car, period of hire and whether or not a driver is provided. At the end of the year 69 Hire Cars were licensed. They have been used mainly by tourists.

Another new category of vehicle introduced on 1st April 1961 by the Road Transport (Public Omnibus and Public Car) Regula- tions, 1961 is the 'Public Car'. These vehicles are operated in accordance with a franchise granted by the Governor and are used for transport services excluded from the monopolies of the major bus companies. At the end of the year there were 31 licensed Public Cars. They are used mainly by tourists on sight-seeing tours, by hotel managements who provide transport for their guests and for the carriage of air passengers and air-line employees between the Airport and hotels, air-line offices and ferry termini.

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