FEWER MOTORS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 184, 6 August 1927, Page 10

FEWER MOTORS.

IMPORTS FOR SIX MONTHS.

DECREASE OVER 50 PER CENT. CENT.

COMPARED WITH PERIOD IN 192 G.

The value of motor vehicles imported into New Zealand for the six months ended June 30, was £1,071,519, as compared with £2,155,598 for the corresponding period of 1926—a falling off of 50.4 per cent. In this total the value of motor cycles is not included. From the above figures, made public by the Comptroller of Customs, it will be realised that something of a slump has followed the earlier boom. The respective values for the first six months of each year are set forth as follows: — J!>26 1927 £ £ I'niteU States ... 072,005 553,250 Canada «ft 0,58« 183.832 Great Britain .. 437,893 202.749 Italy 32,025 33,354 France 18,461 5,357 Belgium 4,628 2,777 Totals .... £2,155,598 £1,071,519 Of the money sent out of the country for the six months in 1927 the total of £889,820 was for cars and car chasses, and £181,099 for commercial chasses, trucks, vans and buses. Out of 5624 cars and chasses imported, Great Britain supplied 1183, or 21 per cent of the automobiles required by the Dominion during the period referred to, in comparison with 12 per cent of the 11,940 similar vehicles that passed through the Customs in the corresponding period of the previous year. The details of the imports of cars and motor car chasses during the two halfyearly periods are:— 1026. 1027. 1927. No. No. p.c. CS.A 4,729 2,701 48.1 Canada 5,012 1,4!>9 26 7 Great Britain .. 1,348 1,183 210 Italy i«7 ;»m 38 Prance 7S 23 4 Belgium « 2 _L 7 0 * al9 11.040 6.H24 MMM) > alue £1,857,020 £869,820 The commercial vehicles and working chasses during the half-yearly periods were as follows: — 1926. 1927. No. No. Canada 471 «^« United Mates JX)3 408 Great Britain "41 jiS France ->a ? Italy ' Jo 1 Belgium 5 £ ??***» 1,258 1^32 Value £208,578 £181.609