AWAY FROM HOME

Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 25, 29 July 1932, Page 9

AWAY FROM HOME

A MOTORISTS TROUBLES

Counsel for a defendant, charged at the Lower Hutt Court yesterday with failing to produce his driver's licence, stated that about the middle of May his client had been in Auckland, where he reniained for about a month. A renewal of his licence became dueoiv: Ist June, and, having his car with him, he applied at the Auckland Trafiic Office for a renewal,, but was informed that it must be issued in his home town, Lower Hutt. He received an assurance that he would not be prosecuted in Auckland. On his way home, however, he was caught in Wanganui and was fined, the Wanganui Traffic Office also refusing to renew hie licence. On his arrival in Lower Hutt on 18th Juue he was unfortunate enough to encounter traffic officers again, and this resulted in his "appearance yesterday. The Bench took a sympathetic view of the cage, and a conviction, with costs only, was imposedInspector Fletcher explained that the officers in Auckland and Wanganui had neglected their duty in refusing to renew the licence, and had. the motorist known he could have demanded the renewal. The law was, he stated, that any motorist away from home could apply to the traffic office in the town he. was visiting, and on payment of his fee could demand a licence. The fee had to be forwarded within four weeks to the authority in the town where the motorist resided.