MOTOR CYCLE NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 85, 11 April 1933, Page 14

MOTOR CYCLE NOTES.

MURIWAI CAMP.

SPORTS AT HEUSNSVTIXE.

RECORD ATTEMPTS

During the four-days' camp at Muriwai next week-end, attempts are to be made to break tie New Zealand motor cycle speed record, recently set up by W. Kilmister, at Waikanae Beach. Kilmister's mean speed, was 104.048 m.p.h., but in one run he maintained 104.651 m.p.h. This is"nearly 15 m.p.h. faster than the highest speed hitherto attained at Muriwai, where Mattson averaged 90.45 m.p.h. last November. On Saturday a party of local riders is to go to Helensville to compete with the members of the Kaipara Club in a sports meeting to be held at the Helensville Showgrounds. The Muriwai camp is being organised by the Auckland Motor Cycle Club, which has put Myres Robinson in charge. Tent accommodation will be provided by the club. Fewer Imports. During 1932, only 340 motor cycles were imported into New Zealand. This is less than half the number that arrived in 1931, but even the figure for that year, 797, is small compared with previous years. ' Since 1925, when 4836 machines were imported, the number has steadily decreased, but the percentage of British machines has increased. Of the 4674 motor cycles imported in 1920, for example, only 3148, or 67.5 per cent, were British, whereas in 1930, the last year in which the number of motor cycles reached four figures, 2571 out of a total of 2750, equal to 93.5 per cent, were British built. Of the 797 machines imported in 1931, only four were American, but two German machines, the first since 1919, were registered. No foreign machines at all came in last year.