MOTOR CARS IN N.Z.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 10849, 15 March 1921, Page 9

MOTOR CARS IN N.Z.

SOME INTERESTING FIGURES.

“Lloyd’s List” deals with the subject of motor-care in New Zealand. It is pointed out that during the first six months of 1920 over 6000 motor vehicles were imported. Statistics in an American Consular report show that of 3091 cars imported in 1918, no fewer than 1161 came from Canada and 1913 from the United States, the supply from the United Kingdom being only 16. In 1914, however, of "a total importation amounting to 6602, the United Kingdom contributed as many as 2015 vehicles, this number being .only exceeded bjf the 2555 of the United States. The import trade from the Mother Country has been gradually declining since the beginning of the war, but no figures are available since the Armistice to indicate whether any recovery has been made. Referring to supplies in general, the journal remarks: “As an evidence of the state of the New Zealand motor-car market, it is reported from motor-car dealers that orders are on file for all cars brought in long before they arrive, and that gasoline and motor spirits are doled out at about 2s 6d per gallon on orders from the Board of Trjide, and there has been a» shortage almost continually during the past eighteen months.”