Tests for Driving Licences, Public Education, and National Inspection of Vehicles Urged ORE.than twenty teaffle experts sat recently in a conference room of the National Economic Counci headquarters in Nanking to deliberate measures to battle the increasing traffic accidents with the rapid development of the highway communication in the country.
There "were the representatives of the alarming rate of casualties caused ten municipalities and provinces, by highway traffic, including Nanking, Shanghai, Hang-'Regarding the examination of chow, Kiangsu, Chekiang, Anhwei, motor drivers, the conference decided 'Kiangsi, Hupeh, Honan, and Fukien, that all applicants should pass three attending: the "Conference on the} successive tests, medical, oral and Examination of Motor Drivers and driving, before they are' given driv-the Inspection of Motor Vehicles Ing licences. In the medical test. sponsored by the National Highway special attention will be pald to the Traflle Commission under the NEC. sight, hearing, and soundness of the Presided over by Mr. Ho Nai-min, limbs of the applicants. In the oral member of the latter commission, test the applicants will be questioned the conference adopted a number of on tale regulations, geography and important resolutions calculated elementary mechanics assing unify the measures for the examina~ both the medical and oral tests, the tion of motor drivers and the inspec-applicants will then be given a tion of motor vehicles and t reduce driving test.
Stricter requirements were stipulate ed by the Conference for bus.
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