IMPORT LICENCES FOR ONLY HALF CARS AVAILABLE
(PA.) ■ AUCKLAND, This Day. Although British manufacturers had guaranteed 20,000 passenger cars for the New Zealand market m 1940, the import licences just issued allowed for the import of only 10,000, which was a reduction of 7000 on last year’s-quota, stated the vice-president of the North Island Motor Union, Mr F. G. Farrell, who left by plane for Christchurch today to attend the half-yearly conference of the South Island Motor Union, opening at Dunedin on Thursday. New Zealand’s refusal to take delivery of 20,000 cars would deal a serious blow to the United Kingdom, Mr Farrell added. British manufacturers could not obtain allocations of steel and materials unless they could assure themselves of a market overseas. . The South Island Motor Union conference, he added, would in all probability make representations to the Government to increase the import licences. _
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1948, Page 6
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