TESTING OF CARS.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 360, 15 February 1937, Page 5

TESTING OF CARS.

Maximum Fee Not More Than 2/6.

Press Association —Copy Tight. Auckland, To-day.

Motorists will not be required to pay more than 2s 6d to obtain a motor vehicle certificate of fitness’, ■which it is obligatory under the traffic regulations to carry after March 31 next, according to Mr F. G. Farrell, president of the Automobile Association (Auckland), who has been visiting Wellington. Representatives of the North and South Island Motor Unions, said Mr Farrell, held interviewed the Commissioner of Transport and had been advised that arrangements had been completed with the motor trade to conduct the necessary tests for life istulng of certificates of fitness. All garages officially classified A grade had already been so authorised by the Minister of Transport, Hon. R. Semple, and standardised official certificate forme were being circulated to these garages by the Government. The motor trade had agreed that the fee should not exceed 2s 6d. The commissioner said that only in instances where an officer of the Transport Department war called upon to conduct a test would a fee of 5s be

charged. Mr Farrell intimated that it was likely that the city councils in the four main centres would also be gazetted examining authorities, but eve nin such cases the maximum fee would be Jimited to 2t 6d every six months.