MOTOR REGULATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 23698, 4 October 1940, Page 2

MOTOR REGULATIONS

RELAXATIONS TO HELP WAR EFFORT [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, October 3. Several interesting provisions, which are designed to facilitate the country’s war effoi’t, are contained in the Motor Vehicles Emergency Regulations, 1940, gazetted to-night. One of the regulations provides that farmers, who, in the past, have been granted a reduction of 50 per cent, of the heavy traffic license fees provided their farm trucks _ are used only for the carriage of their own supplies, may now carry their neighbours’ milk or whey to and from a dairy factory without forgoing the reduction in license fees. The purpose of the regulation is to encourage the production of more cheese for export to Great Britain. Another regulation authorises _ the Commissioner of Transport to issue driving licenses without fee to qualified members of His Majesty’s forces wbeu their duties in the services require it. Hitherto local bodies have been the only authorities competent to issue driving'lieonses. To recognition of the fact that a number of drivers are doing less motoring

owing to the petrol rationing, another regulation provides that driving licenses which expired on May 31, 1940, may be renewed until May 31, 1941, without the applicant being required to undergo a new driving test. Previously this exemption affected only licenses applied for -within throe months of the old ono’lapsing..