MOTOR-CAR LICENSES

Dominion, Volume 19, Issue 155, 27 March 1926, Page 13

MOTOR-CAR LICENSES

A RAID YIELDS RESULTS It is good evidence of the activity of the motor inspector’s department of the City Council that as late in the financial year as Sunday last a motorcar raid was instituted, with the object of. catching those motorists who iutvc to take out licenses for the i c . .it of the year) just closing, were stationed in various ' < te city, the Queen’s Drive, ■ ,;i.> Hie Hutt Road, and as the result, some thirty persons were found to be driving without the necessary ‘licenses. Some gave tlie excuse that they thought <hey could “hang it out” until the end of 'the financial year (when a new license is necessary), but such is not theease. During the present week the office of tlie chief motor inspector in Jervois Quay has been literally besieged with people taking out licenses for the year commencing on Thursday next. When visited vesterdav afternoon there were about fifteen persons awaiting attention, with only one clerk (and two assistants), to do the work This staff, going hard, can cope with only about 150 licenses a dav. As there will be some 10,000 to deal with, it will take some weeks to issue the licenses, however eager the motorists may be to take them out. It would seem that unless the staff is increased, there will be plenty of drivers at Easter without a license. ’