ENGLISH MOTOR-CARS.

Press, Volume LXVI, Issue 20024, 4 September 1930, Page 12

ENGLISH MOTOR-CARS.

REPRESENTATION IN NEW

ZEALAND.

An important appointment in the motor industry is that of Mr A. W. Hawley. to represent the motor manufacturers of Great Britain. The establishment of a permanent office in Wellington is an expression by English motor manufacturers of their recognition of the importance of this market and an indication of their desire to keep in close personal contact with the Dominion and its requirements. Mr Hawley's office thus constitutes the connecting link between the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders of Great Britain, £ind New Zealand, and it is confidently anticipated that this closer co-opera-tion among the motor trade, allied with the dissemination of market and statistical information, will result in a widening of the market for English cars and trucks in New Zealand. Mr Hawley will make his headquarter* in Wellington, but other centres will be visited from time to time with the object of co-ordinating the various factors connected with the distribution of English can and trucks, and thus provide one single voice through which the manufacturers and distributors of English motor vehicles may speak. » A notable feature of Mr Hawley's appointment is the fact that no preference or favour is shown to any particular make of car, although closer co-operation will be maintained with the resident factorv representatives of the various English cars available in New Zealand, —i