DOMINION WAR EFFORT

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 October 1940, Page 3

DOMINION WAR EFFORT

TRAFFIC LICENCE FEES. REDUCTION FOR FARMERS EXTENDED. Designed to facilitate the country’s war effort, several interesting provisions are contained in the Motor Vehicles Emergency Regulations, 1940, gazetted last night. One regulation provides that farmers who in the past have been granted a reduction of 50 per cent in heavy traffic licence fees provided their farm trucks were used only for the carriage of their own supplies, may now carry their neighbours’ milk or whey to or from the dairy factory without foregoing the reduction in licence fees. The purpose of the regulation is to encourage the production of more cheese for export to Britain. Another regulation authorises the Commissioner of Transport to issue driving Iciences without fee to qualified members of His Majesty’s forces when their duties in the services require it. Hitherto local bodies have been the only authorities competent to issue driving licences. In recognition of the fact that a number of drivers are doing less motoring owing to petrol rationing another regulation provides that driving licences which expired on May 31, last, may be renewed till May 31, 1941, without the applicant being required to undergo a new driving test. Previously this exemption applied only to licences applied for within three months of the old one lapsing.