Motor Fitness Warrants In Question
t Per Press Association. Copyright .] WELLINGTON, This Day.
Comment on the large number of instances in which motorists brought before the court on other charges were found to have no warrants of fitnes in respect of their vehicles was made by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington yesterday. On thi’ee separate occasions, said the magistrate, ho had pointed out that fact, and it showed that the number of motorists without warrants of fitness must be very large indeed. With warrants covering a sixmonths’ period, and being renewed at odd times, it was difficult for motorists to remember to renew them, he added. Probably the most effective way of dealing with the situation would be to insist that before a person could rclicense a car he should produce a warrant of fitness issued within three months of the date of the application for the relicensing.
“If the warrants of fitness are causing motor vehicles to be safe on the roads —as to which there are grave doubts —this would be the only method of ensuring that there are periodical examinations,” added the magistrate.
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Northern Advocate, 13 July 1938, Page 5
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