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DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN

SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1975

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MORE PEOPLE LICENSED TO DRIVE

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THERE HAVE BEEN MORE PEOPLE LICENSED TO DRIVE DESPITE A CONTINUED DROP IN THE NUMBER OF REGISTERED VEHICLES SINCE THE END OF 1973.

THE NUMBER OF DRIVING LICENCE APPLICATIONS HAS REMAINED STEADY FACH MONTH ALTHOUGH MORE PEOPLE CONTINUE GIVING UP THAN AC VIRING CAR OWNERSHIP.

AT THE END OF JUNE THIS YEAR, THERE WERE 405,221 LICE: SED DRIVERS AGAINST 109,995 REGISTERED VENICLES OF UNGU 116,2 3 WORE FRIVATE CARS. THIS REPRESENTS AN INCREASE OF 34,012 DRIVER OVER TOVEMBER 1973 WHICH RECORDED THE HIGHEST TOTAL OF 102,953 ! CGISTERED VELICIES.

AS DRIVING | ICENSES CAN BE ENDORGED FOR DRIVING ADDITˇONAL CLASSES OF VENICES N'TER THE APPROPRIATE VEST3, 475,929 €. THE LICENSED DRIVERS ARE INTITLED TO DRIVE PRIVATE CAD- 63,700 [OTORSYCLE= 4,6 9, PUDI IG AND PRIVATE LIGHT DUS= 57,105, (OODS VEHICLE= 6 „SG, YAXI AUD PUZLIC CAR- AND 20,000 TO FULLIC AND PRIVATË OJJMLUS.

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IN JUNE ALO E, THE TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT ISSUED 5,170 PROVISIONAL DRIV OG LICENCES TO APPLICANTS WHO WISH TO UND: RGO LRIVING TRAINING, AND 10,357 TESTS FORMS FOR DRIVING TEST APPO HITMENTS.

DURING THE (AME MOUTH, THE DEPARTMENT'S-DRIVING TESTS SECTION CONDUCTED A TUTAL OF 13,500 DRIVING TESTS FOR VART US CLASSES OF VEHICI ES, WHICH INCLUDED 3,239 VRITTEN TESTS AN- 6,935 CONDINED RAD TUSTS, BOTH FOR PRIVATE CARS, AS WELL AS

7 TESTS FOR LIGHT BUSES.

A TRANSPORT DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID TODAY THE STATISTICS INDICATED SOME APLICANTS MIGHT NOT HAVE AN IMMEDIATE NEED FOR A DRIVING LICENCE, AN) VURE APPLYING FOR ONE EITHER AS A ST. TUS EVIDOL OR DECAUSE IT TIGHT DE USEFUL IN THE FUTURE,

HE SAID THERE WERE 79,506 DRIVING LICENCE APPLICANTS (N THE LAITING LIST FOR WRITTEN OR ROAD TESTS AT THE END OF JUNE. THE VAITING TIME FOR A PRIVATE CAR WRITTEN TEST WAS ONE MONTH WHILE THAT FOR PRIVATE CAR ROAD TEST WAS SIX MONTHS ON HONG KONG ISLAND AND EIGHT AND A HALF MONTHS IN KOWLOON, HE ADDED.

+OF THE 13,500 TESTS CONDUCTED IN JUNE, 6,474 APPLICANTS PASSED THE TEST THE AVERAGE PASS RATE IS 40 PER CENT,+ HE SAID.

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