Motorists Urged To Relicense Early
[Per Press Association. Copyright.'] WELLINGTON, This Day.
With more than 300,000 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. Unless this .is done, there must be serious congestion and delay at the public counters. To ascertain how many motorists had taken this timely precaution in their own interests, the motor registration branch of the General Pest Office secured details of the licenses renewed at a number of important centres covering half the total motor vehicles on the register. It was found that in the first 13 days of the relicensing process to last Saturday, the proportion of vehicles relicensed was only 10 per cent, of the total. Auckland, with nearly 13 per cent., showed the highest percentage of licenses taken out, the Wellington percentage being 12, Napier 11, Palmerston North and Hastings 10, Christchurch nine, Hamilton, Invercargill and Now Plymouth, seven. Taking the average of these centres, it is evident that in the remaining 18 days of this month 90 per cent, of the Dominion’s motor vehicles have still to be relicensed.
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Northern Advocate, 16 May 1939, Page 7
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