DRIVERS' LICENSES
"ANY POOL THAT COMES ALONG." .. .; ' (By .1 plesroDh.—Press Association.)" NAPIEK, This Day.Several somewhat scathing remarks about the issuing of ...motor-drivers' licenses were passed at yesterday's meeting of the Hawkes Bay County ' Council. ■ "Is it a fact," asked Councillor J. S. Orr, "that wo give a license to drive a. car to any fool that comes along?" . The chairman (Mr. H. M. Campbell): "That is so. But.others got one as well." Councillor Orr: "What on earth is the good of giving a license at all at that rate?" Mr. Campbell: "It is no good unless the driver gets into some trouble. Except for some special reason there is no power to refuse a license." Councillor T. M. Chambers: "I was under -the' impression that applicants were supposed to pass an examination." . ■The chairman:' "The practice was started in-one place, then stopped. It is quite hopeless unless the examination applies to all." Councillor Orr: "As things are now, then anyone can get a license1!" ' The chairman: '.'That is so. The bigger the fool, the bigger the license."
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 11
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177DRIVERS' LICENSES Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 119, 16 November 1926, Page 11
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