Motor Relicensing To Be Easier This Year

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30763, 29 May 1965, Page 1

Motor Relicensing To Be Easier This Year

The Post Office is doing everything possible to make relicensing of motor vehicles easier this year. The relicensing form has been redesigned for simplicity. Extra staff has been diverted to the motor registration branch in the W’entworth building in Hereford street. Relicensing may be done at any of the 101 Post Offices in the Christchurch postal district.

Bulk facilities are available to business firms with fleets of vehicles and about 2000 vehicles have already been reMcensed in this way. There were 89,700 vehicles relicensed in the Christchurch metropolitan area during the 21 working days in June last year. On these figures, an average of 4270 motor vehicles

will have to be registered daily this June to allow the coverage of the registration of all vehicles.

The relicensing fees for the main classes of vehicles are as follows: Cars: £7 13s Od. Trucks: £9 4s 6d. Trailers (under two tons) £2 0s 6d. Motor-cycles £5 Ils 6d. Power-cycles £1 12s 6d.

The increases in fees are in insurance as a result of the amendment to the Motor Vehicles (Third-Party Risks) Regulation of 1963. Insurance, for example, of motor cars is £4 12s 6d this year compared with £2 14s Od last year. This year, every vehicle will receive a green licence label and permanent plates will be issued to all vehicles not yet equipped with them.