<&>Wellington Corpus of Spoken New Zealand English Version One <&>Copyright 1998 School of Linguistics & Applied Language Studies <&>Victoria University of Wellington <&>side one <&>3:33 good morning kelly good morning um the attacks on females in taxis these days yeah the taxi the taxi threat yes um now what the general public don't seem to be aware of is that you CAN ask for a female driver OH YEAH um what a good idea if you're ringing up for a from from <{><[>home or somewhere for a cab you can say oh and can i have a woman driver please <[>if you're <&>4:00 yes and you can also take any taxi you like off the rank so if you don't like the look of a driver yeah you can go along the rank till you find a female if that's what you want um you can take any taxi you like mhm so well that's an that's an important point to remember isn't it <.>i'm er the taxi company would probably be a bit wary if i rang up and particularly <.>w as i'm <.>lo losing my voice today <.>s i'd like a woman driver please <{><[>but i mean laughs they <.>pr but i <.>c i see your point there <.>th <.>the <.>i if if er if you're alone and you're female and it's late at night and you're not too happy with er with some of the men you see driving cabs around town the chances are you can get a much nicer female driver just by asking for one or choosing them at the stand <[>laughs that's correct bill um i mean exhales <.>th there's <{><[>no <[>do you drive yourself by the way yes i do what do you think of some of the guys you work with um some of them i'd have my doubts about mm but because i know them um it's not a problem but <,> before i started driving i had a problem with one er one or two taxi drivers and i just <&>5:00 said i did not want ever want them again yes um <,> you know there are <{><[>ways and means <[>cab companies need to be told don't they that er if you ring back afterwards and say look you sent me cab er you know one one nine i don't know who cab <{><[>one nine is they'd say you know actually i've just probably libelled somebody cab cab x um i don't i didn't really like the guy er and i don't want him back again thank you very much <.>th THEY need to know that sort of feedback don't they <[>laughs yes they do <{><[>um <[>do they act on it do you think kelly sorry do they act on it yes in a lot of cases they do mhm um some of the taxi drivers themselves will say oh no um that person doesn't want me <,> um and they won't go and pick up mm from a certain address or <,> whatever um but generally speaking you know you can ask for whatever you want you can ask for a van you can ask for a car you can ask for a female or a male driver yep you can ask for <&>6:00 smoking nonsmoking car <{><[>um you know the the choice is with the public <[>word it's all about choice these days isn't it it is yeah well thank you very much for that kelly you're welcome okay okay bye bye bye and i liked her honesty too there are some <.>s some drivers in her company SHE wouldn't drive with either good morning sarah <&>6:13 <&>next caller XX not transcribed sounds Scottish <&>10:25 karl good morning oh karl er yes bill er i'm a novice at this i'm a seventy five year old superannuitant and er i keep telling myself that i won't be shocked at any future news i hear <{><[>bad news and that but i i can't help it eh i'm amazed at this latest one with taxi drivers i mean one time you could put your wife or lady friend or friend into a taxi and and at least they were safe <[>laughs yeah till they got to their gate <{1><[1>but not now and er <.>i i'm just wondering bill to make it short er i'm not trying to tell you <{2><[2>your job but er have you been in touch with the er association or administration taxi driving <[1>yeah <[2>mm <&>11:00 the taxi driver proprietors' federation or federated yes i'm just wondering what they what they er if they are doing anything the top heads about disciplining their drivers and that what ARE they doing about it well hopefully we'll have er one of their spokesmen coming up in the next ten minutes or so er we've been on the line to them this morning and er so we will be hearing er from them before ten oclock <.>they i noticed in the news story they blamed deregulation and i've heard this argument before that there's really very little control er over who who becomes a cab driver these days yes that's that's the trouble yeah er maybe they have to go back to a system that pretty stringently enforces er you know anyone with a conviction shouldn't be let near it it for a start i don't know whether whether that still applies mm oh well karl well we'll have a talk to them <{><[>and find out what they <[>well thank you thank you very much bill that's that's all i i wanted to <{><[>say <[>okay and that other advice from kelly was quite good wasn't it you can ring up if if you're a lady and ask for a woman cab driver yes yes very good er yep okay <&>12:00 did you er did what time did you say that er you may have them on well some time some time in the next ten minutes or so i would <{><[>have thought <[>yeah yeah very good bill <{><[>thank you very much i'll be listening <[>okay i'll be listening bye bye frank good morning morning what can we do for you um some time ago i think this was a couple of several weeks ago there was a statement in the paper about them checking on er income tax returns being put in did you remember that at all think it was about eighty thousand people checked eighty three thousand were <{><[>checked er for for for <.>p <[>word eighty three thousand and out of that there was about twelve thousand who had made wrong statements or er you know dodged paying er putting the forms in at all well there was something a bit iffy about them they still had they they were going to make further <{><[>checks <[>well those same people would have made the same statements when they put up for their community card therefore they would be getting the community card when they should not be getting it that's true therefore the poor <.>b old person who's managed to save a couple of bob is lumbered with this er high user card mhm so er i think myself it it proves that the <&>13:00 darned thing's just a flop and er now we've got a new person in charge let's hope he makes a better job than he made up at clyde dam <{><[>making it necessary for us now to go without things to try and pay those debts <[>laughs the curious thing frank is i think it was helen clark pointing out that bill birch is <{1><[1>now the new health minister chaired a thing called the socialist systems reform committee of cabinet and an officials committee that ran underneath that <{2><[2>that was in charge of selling all these health reforms and jim bolger was involved <{3><[3><.>in <[1>yeah <[2>yeah <[3>this is this is correct but now they all sort of wash their hands <&>transmission fades through rest of utterance a sign of a little mistake it's nothing to do with me i think i trust farther the sort of bloke who's er a car salesman <{><[>laughs <[>laughs would you buy a used government off of those <{><[>guys <[>yeah anyhow er er this these <&>transmission fades through rest of utterance those ladies that were attacked by those er cabbies in town mm um it's very very hard for a person to rush over and help or to help cos what happens to them if they happen to injure one of those <&>14:00 persons they the person that's trying to help gets slammed in the cooler not them you could be er yes you could get involved in an assault thing <{><[>i must admit <[>yeah anyhow good luck old <{><[>thing <[>okay frank bye bye see you twenty six minutes past nine on wellington two zed b talk with bill ralston we're taking your calls here i'm still intrigued on this mammogram story that came out in the news wellington doctors advising female patients over the age of fifty to have mammograms are being accused by the people's REsource centre which looks after beneficiaries of using scare tactics to make money i'd i i get the feeling that's unfair we should talk to the people's resource centre inhales i know it costs money to have mammograms and it's another eighty dollars on top of a consolation er consultation fee all which is pretty expensive but by golly it's worse still if you get cancer isn't it <&>14:40 <&>advertisements <&>15:37 twenty nine minutes past nine on wellington two zed b what to do about cab drivers who knows morning andrea good morning bill er i'd actually like to talk about these women that were attacked in manners mall yes <&>16:00 <.>w i think the issue is NOT um <,> whether people came to their assistance or not the issue is they should be allowed to walk down the street without being attacked that's true um the shopkeepers in wellington are talking about trying to attract people back into the city as long as these groups of teenagers hang about and terrorise people they're never going to get um <,> customers back into their shops <.>that yeah andrea i <.>w mean i won't take my family down there anywhere um i mean daylight hours fine but if it's starting to get on towards dusk i would not walk that area of town no i wouldn't i find it very threatening even during the daylight hours what would you do i mean what do you do about it well actually i think our constabulary needs to be given powers <,> to um haul those kids in and return them to their parents <{><[>i've got teenage kids and they're not allowed to be out at night when i don't know where they are <[>mm i wonder if their parents really give them a stuff did you see that ad on t v about how how to create a criminal you <{><[>know <&>17:00 <[>oh yeah i've i've actually been through some of that stuff one of my teenagers was giving us a real hard time aha um these kids claim that they have parents that don't understand and <{1><[1>exhales stuff like that yeah <,> bill i had a bad childhood <{2><[2>exhales and i'm not a law breaker <{3><[3>laughs <[1>don't care <[2>yeah <[3>laughs you sound all right you don't <{><[>sound <[><.>i i'm a decent person our whole family had a bad childhood and none of us are law breakers i think the kids need to be given a few hard lessons in life along the lines of responsibility <,> <{><[>word <[>how do you get that <.>res how do you give them that responsibility how do you how do you <{><[><.>j <.>j <[>i think hauling them into the into jail for a while mhm not into um <,,> like as for a jail term but overnight yep those kids a few times of that and they might start to get real and having their parents hauled down to <.>c to collect them in the morning so a short sharp shock the police should er <&>18:00 move in quickly er when they see <.>grou gangs of youths hanging around like that they must be committing some offence <{1><[1>but they can pull them in get the parents <{2><[2>involved <[1>well <[2>they're not committing necessarily committing an offence at the time but their potential to commit an offence is VERY VERY high mm well it's a good point <{><[>that er <[>i'm i'm a i'm a bit of a um reactionary on this sort of thing i guess but i've got teenagers and i know that they can be very hard to handle yep and i sympathise with parents who do have <.>pa problems with their kids but the parents actually have to stop listening to a lot of the bleeding heart liberals that are about and take <,> and do what they feel comes from within them i had a kid that got himself in trouble he was expelled from school um and we were really thrown by what he did <{><[>he was <[>what'd he do he was one step away from the law and when we when he came <&>19:00 home from school we um laid down rules for him we said if you want to live in our house these are the rules yeah and he knew that that's what he had to do <{><[><.>that <[>little bit of tough love well it was i phoned the tough love people <{><[>and the woman said to me what are you doing <[>yeah yeah when i told her she said you're actually doing the right thing <{><[>and that was my instinct but a lot of parents are too scared to go by their instincts <[>voc voc tut right you'll do everything you can to appease them rather than <{><[>say yeah <[>yeah it's a lot of the stuff that comes out from um <,> exhales i don't want to say psychologists laughs but people in that line of work in the social services line puts a lot of the blame on parents <,> and i think the kids are often just wild kids and it's not necessarily the parents' fault <&>20:00 yeah and er <.>th exhales you tend to coddle them a just a wee bit probably more <{><[>than they need to <[>yeah to try and appease them it's a good point andrea andrea good to talk to you good to hear a bit of common sense there <&>20:06