New Zealand’s Record Motoring Trading
[Special to "Northern Advocate."] WELLINGTON, This Day. According to the latest figures available, it is shown that for the first six months of the year a new trading peak in the motor industry has been reached. To the end of June, 19,610 motor cars, chassis and commercial vehicles had been imported, exceeding last year’s half-yearly record of 17.287, while the dutiable value of the imports, £3,084,096, was also much higher than the £2.697.575 which was the previous record set for the corresponding period last year. Both this year's totals represent more than half the figures for the whole of last year, when the number imported was 36,761, and the dutiable value £5,786,383.
The death has occurred in New York of Mi’s Chrysler. wife of Mr Walter P. Chrysler, the motor-car manufacturer.
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Northern Advocate, 10 August 1938, Page 4
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