Rich though the dominion is in real, it imported supplies of that commodity during the first seven months of the current year to the value of half a million sterling, this figure representing a heavy advance on the corresponding total for 1923. While the character of the imports of a country is not accorded any general significance as a guide to the character of the inhabitants, it necessarily reflects more or less their standard of living -*nd their ability to indulge in the comforts and luxuries of existence. Possibly moat intelligent schoolboys could answer correctly a question as to the imported product, upon which the people of the dominion are content to pay their heaviest annual reckoning. It is, of course, the now übiquitous motor car. Motor vehicles were imported during the firet seven months of this year to the value of over
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19277, 15 September 1924, Page 6
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143Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19277, 15 September 1924, Page 6
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