MOTOR CAR IMPORTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 4414, 6 November 1934, Page 3

MOTOR CAR IMPORTS.

NINE MONTHS’ FIGURES

The number of motor vehicles imported into New Zealand in the first nine m'onths of this year was 8762, nearly four times the figure of 2250 for the corresponding period last year. IJp to Septembei’, 1932 the total number of vehicles imported w'as 2328 and in the same period of the previous year the total was 3109. Vehicles imported in the first 9 months this year were valued at £1,080,888 for purposes of assessing duty, compared with £319,653 in the corresponding period last year, £337,774 between January and September in 1932 and £456,156 in the first three-quarters of 1931. The figures quoted are the current domestic values in the countries of origin, plus 10 per cent. The public preference for vehicles of United Kingdom manufacture is again indicated, although the preference is not so maifeed as was the case last year. The United Kingdom accounted for 3311 cars and chassis, valued at £455,029, out of the total imported of 6836 set down at £836,764. The United Sta- . tes total was valued at £242688, while there were 1038 from Canada, worth £139,047. In the first three-quarters of 1938, the United Kingdom sent 1566 ears and chassis, worth £209,611, and the United States 43 at £5650, while there were 120 from Canada, representing an expenditure of £lB- -