ABILITY TEST.
MOTORISTS AND LICENSES. STERN "TRY-OUTS" PROPOSED FOR APPLICANTS. No matter what new ukase is made in the matter of issuing motor licenees, the members of the Wanganui CountyCouncil are alive to the essential differences in motoring conditions for city and rural residents, judging by the opinions expressed at a recent council meeting..
A letter from the Bon. K. S. Williams, Minister of Publio Works, was read on the matter of issuing licenses. Mr. Williams asked that local bodies assist in the matter of testing license applicants fully as to their ability to drive in the busiest city street or on the most difficult of hilly country roads. He asked that •no licenses be issued by a local body to a person not in its area, and pointed out that cases were known where persons unable to obtain a license under one body, had procured one from another.
"If all the test conditions were imposed," remarked the county clerk, "I don't think many of our ratepayers could pet licenses."
Mr. D. Mackintosh: The idea is a lot of rubbish. How can a person be expected to be a proficient driver when he first applies for a license. He's had no practice.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 96, 24 April 1928, Page 18
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