MORE BRITISH CARS

Hawera Star, Volume LIII, 10 November 1933, Page 4

MORE BRITISH CARS

TREND IN NEW ZEALAND. u AlUii PERCENTAGE OF IMPORTS (By Telegrapu —Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, Nov. 0. In view of the large, proportion of British motor-cars imported into New Zealand has shown by the Customs' returns. Mr E. F. Healy (Co., Waira-u) asked the Prime Minister m the House of Representative to-a'ay whether he would take steps to correct the take impression created by Mr 1. Baxtei, British farmers’ representative, that New Zealanders used chiefly American Ca The lit. Hon. G. W. Forbes said oe would be glad to see what could be done to correct the false unpress,on to which Mr Healy referred. It was clear Mr Baxter toad made a eneral statement which was not borne 'out by facts. He was probably not aware that one of the reasons why American cars had been used so largely in the past in New Zealand had been that the British manuiacturer at that time had not been making a ,cair suitable to the conditions existing here. . , , „ Of lute years British manufacture had met the special requirements of Dominion usage and the Customs returns showed that since then Britishmade cars had been purchased in increasing numbers and now formed a l&rire percentage of the total numher of cars imported. The Prime Minister added that in 1930 cars imported from the United Kingdom totalled 2867. compared with 99‘yT from foreign sources. Since then the figures had been: 1931, United Kingdom 3702, foreign sources 469. 193° United Kingdom ,214<, foreign so-rees 134: first nine, months of 1933, United Kingdom 1404, foreign sources 36. ‘