DRIVERS' LICENSES.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18400, 5 June 1925, Page 4

DRIVERS' LICENSES.

A WRONG IMPRESSION.

OLD PRACTICE STOPPED.

The various Acts relating to motor

traffic are productive of no end of confusion, and one of the matters in this connexion is the issuo of motor drivors' licenses. There seems to bo an impression that such licenses may be issued by one local body in rospect of drivers who live in another district, but tho matter is covered in the Regulations as to Motors-drivers' ' Licenses under the Motor Vehicles Act, 1924, as follows — Regulation 4 (1) —Every application for a motor-driver's license made by the owner of a motor-vehicle in respect of that vehicle or of vehicles of that class shall be made to tho local authority in whose district the garage of the motorvehicle is situated.

Occasionally, an applicant for such a license who livos in a district contiguous to Christchurch has been granted n. liconse during a "rush" period, in the Jjelicf that he is in the city area. In such a case tho os license fee is the property of tho local body in which lie garages his ear, and the probability is that, should the mistake be discovered, he will bo advised of the position and instructed to make a new application to the local authority through which ho should have obtained his license. Certificates of ability to drive are not now issued, tho drivers' licenses taking their plad?, and tho change is not at all favourably received by some people. In tho past it has not been unusual for drivers" unable to pass a test in the city to apply for, and.,get, a certificate of ability from another local body whoso test was easier to pass. The bringing into operation of the Motor Vehicles Act of 1924 has put a stop to such a practice, and the position has arisen on more than one occasion lately of a person holding such q. certificate coming to the office of the City Traffic Inspector and expecting to be issued with a driver's licenso without undergoing any further test. If, qn looking up tho records in tho office, it is found that such a person was unable, to pass a driving test in the city before tho license is withheld from them until they are able to give evidence of their ability to comply with the conditions asked of them. To such applicants the action of tho city traffic authorities may appear hard, but it is necessary in the interests of public safety. While on the subject of drivers' licenses, it might be stated that applications a.ro still coming in at a rate that leaves much to be desired. It should not bo a matter for surprise if in the near future tho city traffic officials have a field day such as is not uncommon in Great Britain, with a view to ascertaining who arc not complying with the requirements of the law in this respect. '

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