AMERICAN CARS FROM CANADA
o . MR ANSELL MAKES A SUGGESTION LFrom Our Parliamentary Reporter.] WELLINGTON, August 29. Confidence in the future of the motor assembly industry in New Zealand is entertained by Mr A. E. Ansell (C., Chalmers), who in a speech on the second reading of the Customs Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, suggested that American cars should be shipped direct to New Zealand for assembly, instead of passing through Canadian hands. "We know," said Mr Ansell, "that Canadian factories are in the main subsidiaries of large United State* factories, and in, most cases a substantial part of each car is manufactured in the United States. They are then shipped across the border to Canada, where, with the addition of some Canadian labour for the purposes of the New Zealand customs, they become British cars. Is it not possible so to rearrange ouv tariff that instead of shipping these cars to Canada, they can be shipped direct to New Zealand, and the final work on the cars done here. This is the practicable course, and it should be done by tariff adjustment.''
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21256, 30 August 1934, Page 8
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