"LICENCE PLEASE?”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 533, 10 December 1928, Page 8

"LICENCE PLEASE?”

MOTORISTS CAUGHT IN ROUND-UP 2,500 CARS HELD UP Nearly all the local-body traffic inI spectors combined in a demand on motorists lor their driving licences [ yesterday. Cax-s were stopped on practically all ! the roads carrying heavy s undav I traffic from Otahuhu and Henderson to ! the North Shore. 1 As a result hundreds of drivers »- ere | caught without their licences, and will j have a busy time to-day In producinthem to the inspector who caught them. In most cases a day was allowed in which to produce the licences. The city trp.ffic department held up 2,500 cars, and of this number 260 did not have licences. They were given til! this morning to produce them. The private drivers who keep their licences permanently in their cars, and do not have to remember to change them over with their clothes, were probably best off. It is expected that a number of drivers who have not secured licences will be discovered, when the defaulters are checked up, and they will provide a queue at the Traffic Couft in the near future. It was usual to attach a “.sticker” to the windscreen of cax-s as they were held up, but this practice was not always followed, and one driver who was found w-ithout his licence was held up at Takapuna, the vehicular ferry, and the top of Symonds Street, before he was finally marked for no further attention.