WARANTS OF FITNESS
AUCKLAND SUGGESTION I Per Press Association ] AUCKLAND, May 17. When a number of motorists were charged in the Police Court to-day with failing to carry warrants of fitness, Senior-Sergeant Calwell said it was time the public’s attention was drawn to the frequency of the offences. "We find that in most cases where collisions occur one of the drivers, and sometimes both, have no warrants of I fitness,” said the senior-sergeant. | "Many people apparently leave the '-taking out of their licences to garages land people who supply them with cars.” He pointed out that the offence was not merely failing to possess a warrant, but failing to carry it. The magistrate Mr. C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., said that the weakness in the regulations was that there was no specific date fixed for the taking out of warrants of fitness. If it was made compulsory that warrants be taken out at the same time as cars • were licensed or relicensed then motorists would have no excuse whatever. "I think it would be a good idea if the authority dealing with the relicensing of cars insisted that warrants be obtained,” he said. Treating 20 cases on their merits, the magistrate imposed fines from 10s to £1 10s.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 115, 18 May 1939, Page 8
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