MOTOR LICENSING

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 25 May 1936, Page 4

MOTOR LICENSING

“LATE MIGHT” THIS WEEK

MANY TASKS FOR POST OFFICE

If it were only a question of taking the registration fees and issuing the j new motor license plates by the end ot • May. the Post Omce would net be . troubled over the possibility of last-; minute rushes and heavy work during , the present week, when it will com- j plete the collection of approximately £430,000 from the motor owners of the Dominion. This month is a particularly busy one in the Department because a number of other large financial tasks j have to be undertaken. There is the collection of the quarterly unemployment levy, and the distribution of declaration of income forms, and the collection of the first instalment of unemployment tax in respect to income other than salary or wages for the year ended 31st March. This emergency income tax and the quarterly unemployment levy will probably : total £470,000. The end-of-the-month rush will be further accentuated by : the task of distributing through the , Post Office £76,000 in superannuation ; payments, and £300,000 constituting ; the monthly instalments of pensions. Meanwhile the normal business must be carried on with despatch. Savings-bank desposits and with- ; drawals aggregating 3£ to 4£ millions 1 per month are heaviest at the beginning and end of the period; postal . notes issued and paid number 500,000 lin a month; money order business reaches £280,000: about £220,000 will ’ be collected during the month for the | Mortgage Corporation, £36,000 for the [ Public Trust Office; £70,000 for other ' Government Departments as well as over £IOO.OOO in telephone exchange fees and between £IOO,OOO and £120,000 from the sale of postage stamps, the last activity being more extensive at the moment owing to the Anzac , Commemorative Stamp campaign, i Motor license registration will be , larger than in previous years, therefore, the Registrar of Motor-Vehicles, i to meet the convenience of the public during the last week of re-licensing opportunity, has decided to keep open . the re-licensing depots at the larger centres each night until 3 o’clock. In previous years only the final day has been extended into a “late night.” It is a heavy week for the counter clerks, but the Department’s concern over early application for motor registration is due more to a desire that irritating delays shall not be experienced through members of the public leaving the inevitable task with too great unanimity until the last day.