WHAT THE LAW SAYS

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 117, 19 May 1937, Page 13

WHAT THE LAW SAYS

PLACE OF APPLICATION

The allegation that licences refused by one of the chief centres of population can be Obtained with little difficulty from smaller .centres is rather hard to reconcile with the law on the subject of the place of application for a licence. If the applicant is already the owner of a car, the application should be made by the applicant in' person ; to the local authority in whose district the gafage of that particular car is situated. If.the applicant is not the owner of a motor vehicle, the application must be made to the local authority in the district in which the applicant is a permanent resident. Thus it' does not seem possible legally for persons to obtain licences in any of the smaller centres if refused'in a| city. It is freely stated, however, that, apart from the exceptions made in the regulations themselves for renewals of licences, and for commercial travellers arid others, there have been instances of'persons refused a licence in one district appearing in that district shortly afterwards with licences issued elsewhere. Whether this was made possible by misrepresentation by the applicants, or lack of care on the part of the authorities giving the licences is naturally not very easily ascertainable.

REJECTED APPLICATIONS. In view of the interest attaching just now to the desirability of the fullest qualifications being held by the drivers of motor vehicles, the following figures, obtained from the Town Clerk (Mr. E. P. Norman), show that the proportion of rejections of applicants for licences who were not considered qualified in Wellington is a fairly high one;— .

For.the first, six.months. ot the.cur-