MOTOR BUSINESS BOOMING.
REGISTRATIONS FOR OCTOBER. Accepted as it is as a reliable barometer of business conditions, the motor industry in New Zealand indicates a return to confidence and steady buying. Compared with the experiences over almost a decade, the trade is in the middle of what one is justified in describing as a boom with the best months of the motorbuying season yet to go. The buying habit is being stimulated not alone by confidence, but also by the undoubted quality and value for the money offered in the cars on the market to-day. Better roads and tires are factors, too, in actuating the more economically minded, to say nothing of carburettors, power and weight ratios and that sort of thing. Sensing the free-buying spirit that Is evident, importers are facing the market with large shipping orders, assembly concerns are fully occupied, and in every branch of the trade, wholesale and retail, there is an unwanted activity reminiscent of the good old days before streamlining, synchro-mesh, pre-selectors, hydraulic this and that and automatic whatnots. The figures prove the that is being done. Last month there were 1566 new cars registered in New Zealand; in October, 1934, there were 952 new cars registered. Indeed, the new car registrations for the ten months ended October 31 this year were nearly double those of the same period in 1934, namely 6759 in 1934 and 12,461 this year.
November and December are usually particularly good selling months, and the figures bid fair to set new high limits. The used car market, too, shows animation in common with the rest of the business. All this means increasing the chances of employment of New Zealanders in selling vehicles, in the workshops, selling tires, petrol, oil, batteries and accessories.
1934 1935 Jalnuary .. .. 433 1039 February . . .. 563 971 March .. .. 577 1227 April .. .. 568 1206 .. 620 1250 .. 763 1526 .. 600 1165 August .... .. 749 1249 September .. .. 934 1262 October .. . . ..952 1566
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4771, 12 November 1935, Page 6
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322MOTOR BUSINESS BOOMING. King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4771, 12 November 1935, Page 6
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