WARRANTS OF FITNESS.
MAGISTRATE DOUBTS THEIR EFFICACY. TOO MANY MOTORISTS WITHOUT THEM (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Last Night. Comment on the large number of cases in which motorists brought hefor*the Court on other charges were found to have no warrants of fitness in re spect of their vehicles was made by M J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magis Irate's Court, Wpllington, to-day. On three separate occasions, said theMagis trate, he had pointed out that fact, and it showed that the number of motorists without warrants ot fitness must be very large indeed. With warrants covering a six-monthly period and being renewed at odd time' it was difficult for motorists to remember to renew them. Probably the mn" effective way of dealing with the situa tion would be to insist that before i person could relicense a car ne> should produce a warrant of fitness issue! within three months of the date of application for re-licensing. “If warrants of fitness are causing motor vehicles to be safer on the road' —as to which there are grave doubts — this would be the only method of ensuring that there are periodical examin ations,” said the Magistrate, in con elusion.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 July 1938, Page 3
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