MOTOR NUMBER PLATES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 158, 1 April 1937, Page 10

MOTOR NUMBER PLATES

Colours This Year Black and White WELLINGTON FROM 1001 The motor registration branch of the Post and Telegraph Department will begin the process of annual registration of motor vehicles on May 1, and this must be completed by the end ot' that month. Registration, as usual, is accompanied by a replacement of the number plates displayed on vehicles, and this year's colours will be bind; ground with white numbers, figures of the hundreds being separated from the from the thousands by a small symbol. In the allocation of numbers Wellington is being given the lowest series, the numbers rising In geographical order northward to Auckland with its maximum of 117.500, and then starting from Invercargill and rising in the northern districts of the South Island, reaching the highest numbers on the West Coast. The allocation for private cars in the chief postal districts will lie as fol-

A similar principle for numbering is being followed with plates for public passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles whieh carry an initial letter as well as the numbers.

lows:— Wellington 1,001 22,000 Palmerston North 22,001 33,000 Wanganui 33,001 39,700 New Plymouth ... 39,701 49,200 Napier ■19,201 58,200 Gisborne 58,201 62,500 Hamilton 62,501 77,000 Th a meg ......... 77,001 83,500 Auckland ....... 83,501 117,500 Invercargill 117.501 12(5,500 Dunpdin .- 126,501 138,O(X> Onmflrn 138,001 140,400 Tim aru 140,101 146,400 Christchurch .... 140,401 109,900 Blpnheim ....... 109,901 171,900 Nelson 171.901 175.600 Greymouth 175X501 177,800 Westport 177,801 17S.500