Page 9 Advertisements Column 1

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27232, 8 November 1949, Page 9

X' DO YOU A NEW CAR? We, the N.Z. Retail Motor Vehicle Dealers, are publishing these facts so that you, the car-buying public, can assess more accurately your chances of getting a new one. This year, about 12,000 people will get new motor cars and next year about 10,000. The latter figure we estimate is provided (subject to any Canadian licenses that may be issued) by the Import Licenses for 1950, just announced. These numbers mean nothing to you until you see them against those of prewar year* when you could buy what new car you wished. For the three years preceding the war, car imports averaged 27.000 per year, as So bad if this small number was confined to the present year only, but it has been going on since 1940, and a tremendous backlog of , cars needed to replace obsolete ones is piling up. In the last. 10 years (1940-1949), New Zealand imported ,102.811 fewer cars than for the previous 10 years (1930-39), • and 10,000 for 1950 is not going to make much impression! Cars are growing obsolete much faster than they are being replaced, and this position is “snowbal!ing.■ , Apart from the disquietening fact that this increase of obsolete cars must mean an increased national danger from mechanical failure, it is obviqus that the chances of your buying a gopd used car are getting worse, not better. Perhaps, it may be argued, N.Z. cannot •afford more new cars. In pre-war years we spent 7 per cent, of our national export income on cars. Today import licenses restrict, us to only 3.per cent. The N.Z. Retail Motor Traders wanl to supply you—that is what dhey are in business for—but it is obvious that thtjy cannot sell more cars than the Import Licensing Control allows into this country So, to sum.up. New Zealand Wants more new cars, overseas manufacturers want to sell them to us, and we can afford them; stands in the way.’ ISSUED BY THE MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS SECTION OF THE N.Z. RETAIL MOTOR TRADE ASSOCIATION (INC.) \ S\ n/y % Weet-Bix and coo!, fresh milk . . . simplest, quickest summer breakfast... and if you worked all night Mother, you couldn’t prepare a nicer or more wholesome one., / You see, it’s so delicious, so cool and crisp and rich in taste appeal. That means eager appetites which make full use of all the energy and complete nourishment of toasted whole wheat and milk in combination. Serve Weet-Bix tomorrow and serve it always. It’s New Zetland’s outstandingly popular breakfast food because it’s good food and everybody likes it! fyar a : / is** V lIP SANITARIUM ' m a/' and cool foh milk. Weet-Bfx Is such aft outstanding health food because it's made by the Sanitarium Health Food Company to absolute exacting standards. o a -o * Beauty,you lifted up my sleeping eyes, And filled tny heart with longing with a look.* JOHN MASEFIELD *****&&■ 0 From the Potter & Moore Distillery in the Surrey village of Mitcham came the first Mitcham Lavender Water. That was two hundred years ago. Today, this dearly loved fragrance still crosses the oceans to bring to New Zealand delicate memories of the English countryside. Mitcham Lavender is preserved in the form of familiar toilet preparations which have served Beauty so well through the centuries... M|TC HA M LAVE N 0 E I LAVENDER WATER TALCUM POWDER TOILET SOAP SHAVING STICKS brilliantine Distributors: 8. A. SIw'lTH 4 CO. LTD., Auckland.