MOTOCRACY.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 6

MOTOCRACY.

CARS IN NEW SOUTH WALES. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SYDNEY, April 18. This is clearly the age of niotorcracy, if one may coin for the purpose what seems an eminently fitting word. It lias been estimated, for example, that last year 82 miles of new motor vehicles, mostly cars, found their way on to the roads of New South Wales, and of the metropolis of Sydney. The metropolis, it is estimated, will be carrying an additional 200 miles of motors in another fiVe years’ time. It may not sound much, hut try to visualise a distance of 200 miles, and think of it in terms of one long stream of motors. For pedestrians, side-stepping with death every hour of the day in Sydney, the vision is not pleasant. The r motor industry in New South Wales last financial year yielded in taxation considerably more than £3,000,000. It also paid a wages hill of more than £12,000,000. One big Sydney motor linn purchased last year £2,500,000 worth of Australian materials. To-day there is one motor vehicle in New South Wales for about every 1] people of the population.