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Taxi telephone

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Taxi telephone

This 1920s view of Wellington, looking north along Lambton Quay, is dominated by the Union Bank of Australia (right). In front of the hedged garden are (from left) a weighing machine, a public telephone box and a taxi telephone box.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

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Jane Tolerton, Taxis and cabs – Taxis, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20794/taxi-telephone (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Jane Tolerton, published 4 February 2010.