DILATORY MOTORISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 291, 29 February 1928, Page 8

DILATORY MOTORISTS

RELICENSING DELAYED LAST-MINUTE RUSH EXPECTED The popular tendency to procrastinate was never better illustrated than in the motor registration processes now in operation in Auckland. This year the time allowed for relicensing covers two months, of which one has already passed. A special staff was put on to facilitate the quick dispatch of the applicants. Yet so far only 3,000 of the 15,000 car owners have applied for re-registration. The result will be the compressicn into the last days of Mareh of the great bulk of the applications for new licences, with the result that waiting in queues will be inevitable, and the tedious processes made more protracted than ever. 4; In explanation of this readiness to pile up trouble for itself, the public explains that it does not see why the (government should have its £2 9s 2d, when by waiting until the end of March the interest on that sum can bo saved. In this the point overlooked is that most men value their time so much that the loss of an hour would more than cover the loss on the paltry; sum involved in interest.

“If the public will assist us, they will be assisting themselves,” said an official this morning. “Otherwise there will be delays and hold-ups toward the end of the month.”