Relicensing time again

Press, 31 May 1980, Page 6

Relicensing time again

More than 200,000 motor vehicles in Christchurch are due for relicensing in the next four weeks, and about 20,000 driver’s licences are also up for renewal by June 30. Motor-vehicle relicensing will start on Tuesday, and the hew ';. red registration

labels must be on vehicles I by. July 1, although they. may be displayed before that! date. ' About 1.85 million ve-i; hides are due for relicensing I throughout New Zealand. | ; The Post Office has asked vehicle owners to check the t registration plate numbers on their vehicles, rather, than rely on memory when filling in their relicensing form. i More than 30,000 people; made mistakes recording their own vehicle’s plate number last year, which] caused headaches for Post) Office staff. - ) Charts showing the fees, for all types of vehicles and! simplified relicensing • forms •for-cars will be available at all Post Offices. I . Carless Day boxes at the bottom of the relicensing j [forms can be ignored, be-) [cause there will be no gen- 1 .

I era! reissue of stickers in June. I Motorists are urged to i relicence as early in June as i possible. i The Ministry of Transport | reports that since the twomonth relicensing period; .started on May I, slightly more than 5000 drivers have renewed their. licences, of an estimated 25,000 licences due to expire on June 30. ■ i If a licence has expired ■for more than one year the driver has to sit , the 'test again to get another. ].'- Licences can be renewed, 'in person at one of the. Ministry’s offices, or by mail. .With mail renewals it is i necessary to include a jstamped* addressed envelope, the correct fee of 50 cents I per year, (up to five years), and a medical certificate in i special cases, such as eyeI sight tests for persons aged iover 50. \

For those unable to renew their licences during normal Ministry of Transport office hours, two late nights have ;been set aside, June 27 and June 30. .when the offices I will remain open until 8 ’p.m. ’