MOTOR CARS.
TWO MINUTES ON A STREET CORNER. "And what would it look like I say to soo 1600 wharf labourers riding down to work in thoir own motor-cars—l6oo of them riding through the streets of Wellington," said an orator at a street corner last evening. "Where, would thoy stack 'em?" asked a particularism A voice: "Behind tho 'Pier'-bar!" "Sixteen hundred motor-cars at £300 a piece—that would be over £400,000 for motorcars." "What brand?" asked the particularism "Then there aro 400 men working on tho railway works along tho Hutt ltoad—they would all have their motors. Oh yes I I toil you that it was the worst thing ever dono by Sir Joseph Ward to tako tlio duty off motor-cars and tell the pcoplo that ho did it so that every man could liavo his owii motor." "Did ho tako tho duty off flour, or tea, or potatoes or onions—No I You can eat bread, you can drink tea, you can cat potatoes and onions, but what I say is— you can't eat motor-cars!"
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 9
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174MOTOR CARS. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 280, 19 August 1908, Page 9
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