FINAL RUSH FOR CAR REGISTRATION

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 210, 3 June 1935, Page 8

FINAL RUSH FOR CAR REGISTRATION

Post Office’s “Late Night” WELLINGTON ESTABLISHES A DAY’S RECORD To cope with the final rush for reregistration of motor vehicles, the Post Office this week adopted the expedient of the retail trade in having a “late night.” On Friday at every post office where there had been more than 750 registrations of motor vehicles last year, this phase of the work, instead of stopping at 4 p.m., was continued until 9 o’clock, and all other offices conducting money-order business extended the day by an hour. At all the big motor registration offices special information officers assisted the work by helping motorists to fill In the forms, thus reducing the time taken at the counter and materially expediting business. It is too early 'to give accurate figures regarding this year’s total of registrations throughout the Dominion, but taking Wellington as an indication a decided increase over the number of cars registered on May 31, 1934, is likely to be shown, as the latest Wellington total shows an addition of at least 1000. The registration of 1609 motor vehicles in Wellington on Friday constituted a day’s record. The number of mofor. vehicles licensed in Wellington area is 1472 in excess of that for the corresponding period of last year, and the total, 9048, represents 70 per cent, of the number of motor licenses current in the city.