EAST COAST AIRWAYS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 196, 20 August 1934, Page 6

EAST COAST AIRWAYS

LICENCE AWAITED. t t Ter Press Association | GISBORNE, Aug. 18. s The directors of the East Coast Air- 1 ways have decided 1o place an order ( for two ten-passenger ’planes with the .1 Dehaviland Company as soon as the | company is granted a licence. ( Mishap to Aeroplane. j A minor accident occurred to an ( aeroplane during the week-end at the Wanganui Airport. Air. Paul Bennett was in the act of landing a machine when he bumped on one wheel, causing a bolt to snap on the undercarriage. ■ This resulted in the ’plane tipping over 1 on to a wing. No damage, however, t was done to the machine other than the 1 undercarriage, and the wing was not J strained, < A Midnight Excursion? “Under the Motor Regulations a motor-car must carry the current year’s number plates and they must be aflixed ‘ on the Ist day of June in each year. The motorist is not allowed to display * the current year’s number plates before that date,” said the president of ' the North Island Alotor Union (Mr. W. f A. O’Callaghan), at the conference at f Napier last week. “Therefore, to com- ‘ ply with the letter of the law, motorists are required to go out at midnight on , May 31 and fixe their new number plates. Some definite date, of course. ' must be prescribed upon which the old number plates must not be used, hut one finds it difficult to conceive of any traffic authority taking advantage of the law as it stands to institute prosecu- I tions. Yet the unexpected has hap- < pened. and in Pelmerston North recently f over fifty motorists w r ere prosecuted for 1 failing to comply with the regulations and using their vehicles on the. fi r st day , of June without the current year’s num- I her plates affixed. One man was actu- t any putting hi« plates on when he was < apprehended. In order to prevent such 1 an absurdity arising in future it seems 1 to me that the law might well be ; amended to allow motorists to affix 1 their plates within lhe week preceding the first day of June. Any person not doing so, of course, would be liable to prosecution, and we find no excuse for ; him,, but it seems to me thac we must take some steps to see that motorists are protected against exploitation such , as recently occurred in Palmerston North.”