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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 49, 28 February 1927, Page 3

Ricksha- are'gotng out in -JaDan —the motor age is coining in. Ten years ago in Japan 113,004 of these two-wheeled, man-power gigs were licensed; to-day ■fewer than 55.000. In Osaka, the greatest industrial city, the number has been almost cut in half. Horse-drawn carts just hold their own; but the motor vehicle is coming with a rush. Tea year; ago there were 24 motor trucks in all Japan; to-day there are more than 6000; the number of pleasure cars has leaped from CSI to 15.000. Inter-city buses have already appeared on Japanese roads. Thus the Orient sweeps into the mechanical ajro. It wa- o;. y fifty years ago that the tirst ricksha? appeared, its jog-trot speed destined to drive on: the slow walk of the sedan | chairs kago. and norimona; now a rxm-y' nine man is already too iiosc. - ?-=»» ['■Nation; 3 New Ye:k/..v