NUMBER PLATES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 72, 27 March 1937, Page 8

NUMBER PLATES.

May I refer to the obscurity of many number plates on motor vehicles about our city? While travelling to and from work in one week I have made a special observation of number plates, and I have counted no less than 87 vehicles with obliterated number plates. These figures seem staggering in oliservation of only one hour per day for a week, yet they are absolutely correct. Some were caked with mud and dirt so as to be indistinguishable. others were bent and mutilated beyond recognition, and, strango to say, I saw one number attached perpendicularly, and. stranger still, one screwed hard and fast upside down. We do not see these things until we take particular notice of them. Now if a vehicle has either innocently or intentionally by the driver an obliterated number plate, the driver is possibly a. good candidate for motor offences, especially that dreaded hit-and-run offence. So I think it is about time a good clean-up was made of these plates. Any person can probably even multiply these figures by longer observation, especially at a busy period. With 110 personal reflection on that efTicicnt and capable body of men we have in the traffic department. I think there are quite enough of them, and qnite efficient enough, to put these offenders to rights. I may say the offending plates I 6a_w were indistinguishable at ch>«c sorutinv i" daylight. OI,EAX UP.