MOTOR OWNERSHIP

Evening Star, Issue 22413, 10 August 1936, Page 7

MOTOR OWNERSHIP

NEW ZEALAND’S HIGH PROPORTION—THIRD IN THE WORLD. The motor registration branch of the Post Office, having completed the national figures relating to renewal of motor vehicles licensed as at June 30, announced that the grand total of vehicles licenses (excluding dealers’ licenses) was 187,582. This represents an increase over the 1935 registrations of 20,508, or 12.27 per cent. This substantial advance has been almost equally shared between motor cars and commercial vehicles, the increase in the former having been 15,347, or 13.33 per cent, and in the case of commercial vehicles 4,915, equal to 12.83 per cent. Motor cycles increased in number by 246 (1.79 per cent.). The following are details front all registration districts of motor vehicles licensed as at June 30 last, compared with the totals of the same date last

In addition to the above, there were 8,279 registrations of other vehicles, and 13,944 registrations of motor cycles New Zealand now has a motor vehicle for approximately every six persons in its population, a figure only exceeded by the United States with a motor vehicle for every 4.9 of population. The latest available figures show that the Canadian proportion is the same as New Zealand, and that Australia has a motor vehicle for every 11 persons residing in the Commonwealth.

year Auckland Cars. 24.330 Increase. 3,234 Trucks. 6,709 Increase. 809 Thames 4,922 685 1,490 218 Hamilton 11,360 1,942 3,510 559 Gisborne 3,251 251 747 127 Napier 6,486 635 2,011 276 New Plymouth ... 7.515 704 1,985 240 Wanganui 5,169 513 1,356 202 Palmerston North 8,508 901 1,967 257 Wellington 14,674 1,967 3,736 375 Nelson 3,781 1,442 277 863 106 Blenheim 84 439 44 Westport ... ... 468 65 219 31 Grevmouth ...' ... 1,534 254 538 92 Christchurch 16,834 1,615 3,889 507 Timarn 4,338 378 1,045 110 Oamaru 1,770 126 415 44 Dunedin 8,372 869 2,225 198 Invercargill 6,665 847 1,796 245 Grand total • 130,419 15,347 34,940 4,440