MOTOR RELICENSING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1939, Page 4

MOTOR RELICENSING

EARLY APPLICATION URGED. TO AVOID UNDUE DELAY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. With over 300,000 motor vehicles to be relicensed before June 1 when the new plates must be used, the Post Office has been urging motorists for their own convenience to secure their new**** licences early, otherwise there must be I'’* 1 '’* serious congestion and delay at the public counters. To ascertain how many motorists had taken this timely precaution in their own interest the motor registration branch of the G.P.O. secured details of the licences renewed at a number of important centres, covering half the total motor vehicles on the register. It was found that in the first 13 days of the relicensing process to Saturday last, the proportion of vehicles relicensed was only 10 per cent of the total. Auckland, with nearly 13 per cent, showed the highest percentage of licences taken out, the Wellington percentage being 12, Napier 11, Palmerston North and Hastings 10, Christchurch 9, Hamilton, Invercargill and New Plymouth 7. Taking the average of these centres, it is evident that in the remaining eighteen days of this month 90 per cent of the Dominion’s motor vehicles have still to be relicehsed. POSITION IN MASTERTON. 518 ISSUED TO DATE. There has been a steady stream of applications at the Masterton Post Office for the new number plates, stated the Postmaster, Mr M. M. Simpson, this morning. Up to last night 518 motor vehicles had been relicensed out of a total of about 3000.