ASSEMBLING OF CARS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22354, 30 August 1934, Page 14

ASSEMBLING OF CARS

THE CANADIAN ANOMALY PLEA FOR DOMINION INDUSTRY. (From Our Parliamentary Reports*.) WELLINGTON, August 29. Confidence in the future of the motor assembling industry in New Zealand i» entertained by Mr A. E. Ansell (Govt, member for Chalmers), who, in a speech on the second reading of the Customs Amendment Bill in the House of Representatives to-day, suggested that American cars should be shipped direct to New Zealand for assembly, instead of passing through Canadian hands. We know,” Mr Ansell said, “that the Canadian factories are in the main subsidiaries of large United States factories, and in most instances a substantia! part of each car is manufactured in the States. They are then shipped across the border, where, with the addition of a certain amount of Canadian labour for the purposes of the New Zealand Customs, they become British cars. Is it not possible so to rearrange our tariff that, instead of shipping these cars to Canada, they can be shipped direct to New Zealand, and the final work on the cars done here? This is a practicable course, and it should be dont by tariff adjustment.”