11 JUNE 1927, Page 30

In England we do not know on what our insurance

rates are to be based if the Road Traffic Bill is passed. In Boston the taxicab drivers asked for and got the rates based on mileage, but the Commissioner fixed the premium so high that each cab had to pay something like 2100 per annum ! It is a pity that there are not reliable statistics published showing the per. centage of persons injured by motor vehicles who have not been adequately recompensed. One feels it cannot be very great.