POINTS OF VIEW

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 54, Issue 3895, 28 April 1937, Page 12

POINTS OF VIEW

OPINIONS OF OUR READERS. DRIVING LICENSES. Sir, —The Transport Licensing- Authority might be asked to comment on the statements in last. Monday’s issue from Hon. R. Semple wherein he says: “It is proposed that from June Ist, 1938 (?) all drivers’ licenses be issued by the deputy registrar of motor vehicles. This means that it will be possible to obtain a license at some 300 full-time post offices throughout the Dominion. A new driver will require to present at ths post office a certificate of his competency to drive, supplied by an approved testing officer. In other cases the license previously issued will require to be produced.” It is this last paragraph, Sir, that interests me. I take it that the holder of a drivinglicense can keep it “in perpetuity,” provided he pays the annual fee and does not get the license cancelled for inebriation (no, I mean intoxication or for negligent driving). On that asumption my uncle, who is 78 years cf age now, can keep on getting a licensle until he reaches his century. He is a dinkum Wowser, so won’t be intoxicated in charge of his car, and therefore if his license is to be cancelled before he becomes a centenarian he must tip some other, car off the rdad—probably involving a fatality. Now, Sir, is that what Mr Semple intends. Can a motor driver keep on until he kills someone? My opinion is that if cars have to have certificates of fitness issued every six. months, then the drivers should also have to have similar certificates. Many people now holding licenses were never tested—they just told the issuing officer they could drive, paid the fee, and obtained a license to kill. —-I am, etc., CURIOUS.