TRAFFIC LICENSES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 264, 5 October 1940, Page 4

TRAFFIC LICENSES

FEES FOR FARMERS REDUCED. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Oct. 3. Designed to facilitate tho country’s war effort, several interesting provisions are contained in the Motor i Vehicles (Emergency Regulations, 19-10, gazetted to-night. One regulation provides that farmers who in the past have been granted a reduction of 50 per cent, iii heavy traffic license fees provided their iarm trucks were used only for the carriage of their own supplies, may now carry their neighbours' milk or whey to or from the dairy factory without foregoing the reduction in license ices, the purpose of the regulation is to encourage tho production of more cheese lor export to Britain. Another regulation authorises the Commissioner of Transport to issue driving licenses without Tee to qualified members of His Majesty’s* -Forces when their duties ill tho .services require it. Hitherto .local bodies have been the only authorities competent to issue driving licenses. In recognition of the fact that a number of drivers are doing less mo oring owing to petrol rationing another regulation provides that driving, licenses which expired’on May 31 U-t may be renewed till A lay 31, id'll, without the applicant being required to undergo a new driving test. 1 reviously this oxemptiou applied onlv to license's applied for within thrpo months of the old one lapsing.