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Hokitika Guardian, 12 June 1937, Page 4

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WARRANTS OF FITNESS. DEFECTIVE BRAKES. ■ (Per Press Association—Copyright). WELLINGTON, June 11. The Minister of Transport announced that the return to hand from the garages throughout the Dominion showed that, up to April 30th, there had been 113,383 warrants for, fitness issued. Details are not available regarding 9,089 of the vehicles,. But of -he remaining 104.294 vehicles, 20,966, or 20 per cent, qualified for the issue of warrants, of illness without correction or adjustment to bring them up to the necessary standard of fitness before warrants could be issued for them. The following summary said the Minister, shows, the analysis of .104,294 vehicles for which details are available under each heading covered by the inspections:— Brakes. Foot; Correct, 72 per cent; requiring attention, 28 per cent. Hand: Correct, 74 per cent.; requiring attention 26 per cent. Lights. Head: Correct, 29 per cent; requiring attention]; 71-peivcent. ■ ; Tail: Correct, 83 per cent; requiring attention 17 per cent. Wheel alignment and steering; Correct, 85 per cent; requiring attention 15 per cent. Wind screen wiper; Correct, 85 per cent ; requiring attention, 15 per cent. Rear mirror: Correct, 96 per cent.; requiring attention, 4 per cent. Warning device: Correct, 97 per cent; requiring attention, 3 per cent. Door fastenings: Correct, 97 per cent; requiring attention, 3 per cent. “Apart from the headlights, the most serious point disclosed is the relatively large numbers of vehicles with defective brakes/’ said Mr Semple. “Brakes are probably one of the most important items in the proper control of a vehicle, and I am quite satisfied that it would he hopeless ‘ to expect a reasonable standard, of safety on the roads with something over thirty thousand vehicles wit)] defective brake s running at