MOTOCRACY.
CARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (raOM CXJJL OWH COBBISPOKDINT.) SYDNEY, Ajnril 25. This is clearly the age of motocracy, if one may coin for the purpose what seems an eminently fitting word. It has been estimated, for example, that last year 82 miles of new motor vehicles, mostly cars, found their way on to the roads of New South Wales, and of the metropolis of Sydney, in about 50 per cent, of these new machines. The metropolis, it is estimated, will be carrying an additional 200 miles of motors in another five years' time. It may not sound much, but try to visualise a distance of 200 miles, and think of it in terms of one long stream of motors. For pedestrians, side-stepping with death every hour of the day in Sydney, the vision is not pleasant. The motor industry in New South Wales last financial year yielded in taxation considerably more than £3,000,000. It also paid a wage bill of more than £12.000,000. One big Sydney motor firm purchased last year £2,500,000 worth of Australian materials. To-day there is one motor vehicle in New South Wales for about every 11 people of the population, i
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Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19612, 7 May 1929, Page 12
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