A MOTORING PEOPLE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 14 July 1925, Page 6

A MOTORING PEOPLE

INCREASE IN REGISTRATIONS

Dominion registration of motors has had tho effect of providing reliable statistics of vehicles, comments the Auckland Star. According to the interesting statement, made by the Minister, tlie number of registered cars is much above the previous estimate. There have been registered under the new Act 1C4,582 motor vehicles, of which 70,266 arc ordinary cars. The current Whitaker’s Almanack gives an estimate of the number of “passenger cars” for (several countries compiled by the National Autninohilc Chamber of Coinmerce, New York. The number of cars in New Zealand is given as 45,000. Assuming that tho classification is tho same, and allowing for tho increase in importations in the last few months, this American estimate is very much under the mark. According to it. however, New Zealand stood last year high as a user of motor cars. There were seven persons per car in the United States, thirteen in Canada, twenty seven in New Zealand, forty four in Australia, and seventyfour in the United Kingdom. Taking the Dominion’s population at March 31 last, 1,379,000, and the number of cars registered, we find that this year there is a ear to every nineteen persons. If we take all motor vehicles, there is one for every thirteen persons. The number of cars is increasing all the time—too fast for financial health, some think —and the improvement of roads stimulates the desire to own ears for pleasure and business. New Zealand may be described as a counlrv of motorists.

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