Relief for the automobile owners who have been standing in line for hours in order to register their cars at the Elizabeth City Branche office arrived Monday in the form of a telegram from the Secretary of State, which extends the time limit on new licenses to July 15.
The telegram follows:
Branch Office, Automobile Department, Elizabeth City, N.C.
Due to rush and our inability to deliver license plates in time, the limit for registration is extended from June 30 to July 15. Call upon all officers to co-operate in order to render this service to people. Rapid enforcement after 15th. Please post.
W.N. Everett, Secretary of State
There has been for several days a throng of scores of automobile owners all day long at the Battery & Electric Company where the Elizabeth City office is located. Two clerks are at work on the registration certificates but the work has progressed slowly and many ave stood in line for hours. A reporter for this paper asked some of those in line how long they had been in line and learned that it takes about three hours to move from the foot of the column to the window. One middle-aged farmer said he had been in line Friday and Saturday, but had left after standing for some time. He was back in his place on Monday still trying to get his license plate.
This is the first year that license plates have been obtainable in Elizabeth City and other centrally located towns and while it was thought that better service could be given through the branch offices, considerable congestion has resulted from the system.
From the front page of the Elizabeth City Daily Advance, Tuesday, July 1, 1924
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