NO DAY OF GRACE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 157, 6 July 1939, Page 21

NO DAY OF GRACE.

RE-REGISTRATION OF CARS.

PROSECUTIONS AT PUKKKOHK

"The serious aspect of the«e cases is thnt. the parties are not covered by insurance. fdo not know what their financial position is. but would suppose, in the majority of cases, that the'y would find it most difficult to meet substantial damages in the case of an accident," said Mr. F. IT. Uvicn, S.M., n t the Pukekohc Court yesterday, when a large number of motor car owners were charged with using unlicensed vehicles.

This ww the first crop of motorists who failed to re-rc-jieter their rare before June. 1. In practically every instance Ihe offences occurred on June'l or June 2, when the owners were on their way to procure new plates. One young man was in the act of fivint; tho new plates to hie cur outside the I'ukekohe Post Office, acrordinrr to the evidence of Inspector N. C. Davenport.

The scrioiiMiiesri of the offence appurrntly was not rpnlinrrl by the who would probably hnvc a different tnlo to toll if they were injured by a car which wiw» unregistered and found they could not get compensation, said the mnsrUtrate.

Inspector Davenport said instruction* had been i*eued by the Department to prosecute all offenders in view of the fact that the insurance* had lapsed whrn the old |icenaea had expired. Jfo daye of grace had teen allowed tnl* rear. Mr. Levien mid he could not see how a day of grace eonld be allowed, as the ineurancea were in the hands of private companies and not the State. A car had to he in order, and the owner had to he in order if the vehicle wae to be covered for third-party insurance. A fine of £2 10/, with 12/ costs, wae imposed in Melt case, the magistrate stating thai the fines, were for the protection of "the other fellow," and that all would be Induced to register their vehicles in time next year.