MOTOR-VEHICLES

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1939, Page 3

MOTOR-VEHICLES

DELAY IN RELICENSING

[SPECIAL TO “STAB.”]

WELLINGTON, May 16

With over 300.009 motor-vehicles to be relicensed before June 1, when the new plates must be used, the Post Office has been urging motorists, for their own convenience, to secure their new licenses early; otherwise, there must be serious congestion and delaj’ at the public counters. To ascertain how manj - motorists had taken this timelj' precaution in their own interest, the motor registration branch of the G.P.O. secured details of the licenses renewed at a number of important centres, covering half the total motor-vehicles on the register. It found that in the first 13 days of the relicensing process to Saturday last, the proportion of vehicles relicensed was only 10 per cent, of (lie total. Auckland, with nearly 13 per cnet., showed the highest percentage o! licenses taken out, the Wellington percentage being 12, Napier 11. Palmerston North and Hastings 1.0, Chris :- c.hurch nine, Hamilton. Invercargill and New Plymouth .seven. Taking the average of these centres, it is evident that, in the remaining IS days of this month, 90 per cent, of the Dominion's motor-vehicles have still to be relicensed.