MOTOR RE-LICENSING

Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20495, 11 May 1938, Page 6

MOTOR RE-LICENSING

HAMILTON DEPOT OPENED APPEAL TO AVOID RUSH The Hamiltin motor re-licensing i depot in Knox Street was opened to- j day, when about the usual amount of first day business was handled. During May last year 3333 ears. 16 rental cars, 183 light trucks, 3i5 heavy , trucks, 10 contract vehicles, 23 passenger vehicles, 40 taxis, G service cars, 51 trailers, 62 demonstration cars. 20 local body vehicles (including agricultural tractors , 140 Government vehicles and 221 motor-cycles were registered and it is expected that many of these totals will be exceeded this year. As in previous years the authorities are making an appeal to motorists to , avoid a last-minute rush, but it will I not be possible to ascertain to what extent owners are co-operating for 1 some days yet as few applications are ! d< on the I rst dly. As 'early os y : o'clock this morning, however, registration papers had been issued. The new number plates, which are designed in white and green, must be alllxed on, but not before, June 1. The Knox Street depot is also handling the issue of temporary passenger and goods licenses.

j Scheelite Industry.—The scheelite industry at the head of Lake Wakatipu J has had another setback. With the ! price up to £SOO a ton for ore some onl s . the industry was a highlyprofitalde one. hut it has now slumped to £l4O a ton, which is not payable. Czechs for Farms. —A scheme for the alleviation of the shortage of farm workers and domestic workers on farms in New Zealand was suggested j by Mr Josef S. Zaba, of Prague, j Czechoslovakia, during an address tp the Christchurch Rotary club. If the • Government agreed, be said, he thought that workers could be sent to New Zealand from his country. Many Czechs had gone to the Argentine and other South American States, said Mr Zaba. They were hard workers. Numbers of his countrymen also went to France and Belgium for seasonal work, mostly in mines and on farms, and the scheme worked quite satisfactorily. Eclipse of Moon.—The first of a series of four eclipses this year will he visible, given favourable circumstances, early on Saturday evening, when the moon will undergo a total eclipse. The j amount of obstruction will steadily in- | crease until 7.1* p.m., when the ‘total j phase begins. The moon may then ; be seen totally eclipsed shining redly ! I «>:• may completely vanish, if the earth’s shadow at flic time happens to be dark instead of rt I i sh. Total eclipse will end at *39 p.m. A further eclipse, h j total solar one. will occur at the end I *>f this montii. and then there will not I tx ai y fur! • r eclii ses until November. when another group of two. lunar uni solar, will occur, but none of these will be visible In New Zealand.