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Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 257, 30 October 1925, Page 5

18,000,000 CARS. "'Careful studies made by the statistical departments of banks and by auto manufacturers have established the claim that Prohibition is one of the principal factors in the development of the automobile industry. There are over 18,000,000 motor vehicles registered in the United States. Last year our bill for autos and parts was over 3,000,000.000 dollare. Our gasoline bill exceeded a billion dollars. Such expenditure would be impossible if we were still diverting enormous sums on alcohol. Seven million people, it is estimated, are direetlv or indirectly concerned in the automobile j industry"—Official 1925 Report of U.S. I Government. — (Ad.)