“The official figures as compiled by the Post and Telegraph Department show the number of motor vehicles in New Zealand licensed at March 31. 1935. as 204,902,” stated Mr, A. 11. Ross in a lecture to the Engineering Society at Canterbury College the other evening. The total did not include deniers’ vehicles, “In respect of population per motor vehicles not including motor-cycles," said Mr Ross, “New Zealand is placed Second in the leading countries of the world. The latest published figures, as at December 31, 1933, are as follow United States, people to one motor vehicle; New Zealand, 9 people; Canada. 10 people; Australia. 12; France. 22; England. 25. New Zealand’s position will hardly have altered since that date ns the official figures then showed 188,000 vehicles. The number has now increased by at least 16,896 vehicles.”' l
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 226, 21 June 1935, Page 8
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