MOTOR REGISTRATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 150, 27 June 1934, Page 6

MOTOR REGISTRATION.

The present law regarding the affixation of number plates is impossible to observe in its strict legal application, and therefore needs amendment so as not to bring it into disrepute. Number plates for the new registration year are available for some time before May 31 each year, but it is illegal to affix them before that date. It is likewise unlawful to use thp old number after May 31, therefore a motorist driving at night on the 31st finds himself in the predicament of being in the wrong immediately after the hour of midnight, and it is not possible to affix the new plate in that moment even if it were reasonable to do so. It is suggested that our police close an official eye to breaches of affixing the new number a day or so too soon. Arc they prepared to close the same official eye when the old number is left unchanged for a similar time? Should they be expected to do either, or should they prosecute each class of offenders alternately each year and thus swell the steady growth of motor taxation ? My answer is that all these methods are quite wrong and could easily be adjusted by a small amendment to the law allowing new plates to be affixed at any time after, say, May 20 in each year. OVERTAXED.