N.Z. REGISTRATIONS.
New Zealand bas over 120,000 motor cars, or one car for eleven persons, the same ratio as in Canada. Taranaki, a rich dairy province, approximates America's density of automobiles with one to" every 5,53 people, and Hawke's Bay, a bif sheep farming district, has one to every 6.12 people. It is estimated that car sales should approach 20,000 a; year within the next five years if the present rate of increase continues, and there is every reason to believe that it will. 85 per cent of the cars now sold are closed models, 00 or 70 per cent of sales are on' hire purchase agree-, ments, and Ml' per cent of last years' imports came from Great Britain.
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 20
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120N.Z. REGISTRATIONS. Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 292, 10 December 1929, Page 20
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