WOMEN DRIVERS
ONE IN THREE FAIL MEN ONE IN FIVE (Own Correspondent— By Air Mail > LONDON, March 2? Transport Ministry figures reveal that one woman of every three v/ho offer themselves for the motor-car driving test fails Since May 6, 1935 30,780 women were passed and 9580 failed. The proportion of men who failed is about one in five, the figures being Passed 144,870, failed 27.286 More than 250,0fX) men and women have applied for tests since they became compulsory for new motorists last year, but an average of 450 a week do not keep the appointment. “Test shy" motorists wasted 208 hours of he examiners’ time last month. There has been a rush of applicants anxious to be “real” drivers for Easter, the weekly average being 7600. compared with the January figure of 3500. The newest road fatality figures reveal that there was a decrease of —4.07 per cent.—in the number of people killed for the year ending March 26
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Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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161WOMEN DRIVERS Waikato Times, Volume 119, Issue 19880, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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