DRIVERS' LICENSES

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 75, 29 March 1926, Page 10

DRIVERS' LICENSES

A THOUSAND IN THREE DAYS,

There is neither Government stroke, nor corporation stroke, nor an other kind of easy going in the city traffic office just at present, for the insistence, in accordance with rather impossible clauses of the Motor Vehicles Act, that drivers of all cars, lorries, and cycles must start out on Ist April with 1926-27 drivers' licenses has led to a very heavy rush of work.

In three days something like a thousand licenses were issued, and there are still some more thousands to.be handed over the counter, though there are not now threa more days to go. The year has all along been a heavy one in the Traffic Office, with scarcely any let up in any mouth, though in past years there have generally been "rather dull spells." It is estimated that during the twelve months ending 31st March, something, like 2500 fresh licenses, or licenses to old drivers for a new t. _Ie of vehicle (as when a'motor-cyclist buys a car, or a tar owner decides upon a motor-lorry), have been issued, apart from the straightout renewals, which require the payment of the annual fee but no test.

Just when Wellington motorists will be asked to pay up again for the Hutt road extension is not quite definite, for these .demands will not be made until the Government number-plate difficulty is overcome.