Vehicle dealer suspended ... twice
PA Auckland The car dealer, Ron West Motors, Ltd, has been suspended from trading twice in the last five days. The company’s trading practices were put under the spotlight in a “Fair Go” television programme on Tuesday evening — held up for five weeks because of injunctions sought by the company — and in recent “Sunday Star” articles. The newspaper articles and television programme highlighted the practice of the car dealer, along with a finance company, Canadian
Paints, Ltd, also controlled by Ron West Motors’ principal, Mr Tony Radisich, of securing a mortgage over the homes of car buyers. The Motor-Vehicle Dealers’ Licensing Board suspended Ron West Motors’ licence at the end of last week, serving it on the company on Saturday. But the interim suspension was quashed on Tuesday and an order made prohibiting the Licensing Board from publication of its decision after High Court action taken by the company, said the registrar of dealers, Mrs Marilyn Steele,
from Wellington yesterday. Later in the day the Licensing Board had the orders quashing its suspension and prohibiting publication ■ rescinded, Mrs Steele said. “That means the suspension is back in force,” she said. The Motor-Vehicle Dealers’ Institute, which sought the interim suspension, has also applied for full suspension, which will be heard in a month. Ron West Motors, Ltd, has applied to move the premises from which it trades from Norcross Avenue, Henderson, to a position in Great North Road.
The physical move has already been made to the Great North Road site. The executive director of the M.V.D.1., Ms Pamela Oughton, said a subsidiary had a place of business there. The application, for Ron West Motors trading under the name of Pacific Wholesale Motor Company, will be heard in a month. Mr Radisich also has other car-dealing businesses, including the two yards of Century Autos, Ltd, in Great North Road and C and C Motors at Otahubu, but the M.V.D.I. has not sought their suspension.
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