TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT

Evening Star, Issue 23697, 3 October 1940, Page 4

TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT

SLIGHT DEGREASE IN REVENUE WORK OF MOTOR TESTING STATION Revenue received by the City Corporation traffic department ior the year eliding March 31, 1940, showed a slight decrease in comparison with the figure for the previous year. Tho chief traffic inspector, in his annual report, states that the total revenue for the year amounted to £16,920 15s Bd, as against £17,272 10s lid tor the previous year, a decrease of £ool 15s 3d. This slight decrease was due to a falling-off in the number of heavy traffic licenses renewed in the third and fourtn quarters of the year, to import and petrol restrictions. The decrease in fees collected amounted to £712 3s 3d. There was an increase of £214 15s in revenue obtained from drivers’ licenses, representing 859 licenses, and the amounts paid through the court to the council as fines showed an increase of £26 on last year’s figures. License foes on vehicles plying for hire within the city amounted to £354, as against £196 for 1938-39. The motor testing station at Anderson’s Bay road was in operation for nine and a-half months of the year, 12,147 vehicles being tested, of which 11,574 were given warrants of fitness. Tho revenue for the period was £1,444 12s, and tho maintenance expenditure £1,825 2s Bd. During April, 1940, tho committee decided that no repairs or adjustments could bo permitted in the station by owners of vehicles or others, and that the work of the staff should bo confined strictly to the actual testing of vehicles. This regulation was necessary to prevent accidents occurring in tho premises.