MOTOR VEHICLES
DOMINION FIGURES
VOLUME OF ROAD TRAFFIC
The' annual report of the Transport Department shows that the New Zealand total of all classes of motor vehicles licensed for the year 1939-40 as at March 31-last was .317,526.. Of this totai 219,938 were cars. The island totals of all vehicles were: North Island 209,410, South Island 108,116. The increase in the number of licensed motor vehicles (all groups), compared with the total at March 31, 1939, was 9595, or 3.12 per cent. ...The volume of. motor, traffic on the national roadih'g system up till the introduction of petrol rationing.in September, 1939, was approximately 8 per cent, above the level for 1937-38. The quantity of petrol-..consumed in the calendar, year .1939 ...was just, under 100,000,000 gallons, or approximately 3,000,000 gallons more than in 1938. _ New registrations of cars, commercial vehicles, and motor-cycles decreased by 37.4 per cent., 9.3.. per. cent., and I§.B per cent, respectively in 1939-40, compared with 1938-39. • '■- The Dominion's road bill for 1938?39 was £12,932,970, or £2,-309,872 -, mora thanan 1937-38, .. . >;,-.. . .. :'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 13
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172MOTOR VEHICLES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1940, Page 13
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