DRIVERS’ LICENCES
Local Bodies Should Keep Right To Issue By Telegraph—Cress Association. Invercargill, December 17. Comment on the practice of subagents in the Southland county issuing motor-drivers’ licences was made by Mr. W. 11. Freeman, S.M., at the Magistrates’ Court yesterday when hearing a case in which a farmer pleaded guilty to being found in a state of intoxication while in charge ot a motor-car. “The Transport Department should, in my opinion, prevent ‘■he delegation of issuing of licences to any person at all,” said the magistrate. “It should be right in the hands of the local authority, where they have a competent inspector, or, failing that, a Transport Department officer. We have had eases where persons have gone to Wyndham or somewhere else and been granted a licence. It is not right”
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 10
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133DRIVERS’ LICENCES Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 72, 18 December 1937, Page 10
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