FITNESS OF CARS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 57, 23 July 1947, Page 4

FITNESS OF CARS

CENTRAL STATION URGED, The New Zealand Retail' Motor Trades Association was not adverse to a central station, and many motor traders would be only too pleased to have the granting of warrants in the hands of an independent authority, as was the case in Dunedin, Christchurch and Wanganui, it was stated at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce when the question of warrants of fitness for motor vehicles was raised. One of the recommendations of a report prepared by the Junior Chamber of Commerce was that a central testing station should be established. “It would need to be compulsory for all cars registered within the metropolitan area to be tested as this station,” said, the report. “This would overcome the possibility of a car which was not able to pass the test at the central station from obtaining a certificate from a garage outside the area. Further, all tested cars should be supplied with a suitable sticker which would indicate clearly from a distance the expiry date of the warrants and also each car should be issued with a check testing card.”

It was also recommended that a uniform system of examination and identification should be enforced throughout the Dominion, whether tested by garages or by some central authority, and that the standard should be the same for all types of cars, private, local body, or Government. In this latter connection, Mr Barton Ginger stated that the standard for Government trucks was lower than for trucks in private ownership.

The report was received and further action deferred pending the Wellington City Council’s decision regarding a central testing station.