MOTOR IMPORTS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 11

MOTOR IMPORTS

SHARP ADVANCE SHOWN

FIGURES FOE NINE MONTHS

VALUE OVER ONE MILLION

The number trf motor vehicles imported Irtto Netv Zealand in the first nine, months of this year was '8768, nearly four, tMes #fte .%uf-e of 2850' for the corresponding peiiCtl -last year. Up to bop-; tember, 1938, the total number of; vehicles imported was 5328, and in the same period -of the previous year the. total was 3199. . 1 Vehicles imported in the first nine: months this year were valued at £1,030,888 for purposes of assessing duty, com-i pared with £919,-653 in the corresponding period last year, £337,774 botweeu January and September in 1932, and £456,156; in'the first three quarters of 1931. The figures quoted arc the current domestic; values in the countries of origin, pins 10 pet; cent. 7 The following table shows the number of vehicles of all .types imported m the first uiue months of the .last three years r

Totals 2,328 ,2,260 8,762; • The public, preference for vehicles of 'Kingdom manufacture is again indicated, although the preference is not scf marked as was the cose last year. Tfie United Kin gdoin accounted for 3311 cars and chassis, valued at £455,029, out t>f the total imported of 6836 set down at £836,764. The United States total was 2487, valued at £242,688, while there were 1058 from Canada, worth £139,047., jh the first three quarters of 1933, the United Kingdom sent 1566 cars and chassis, worth £209,611, and the United States 43 at £5650, while there were-120 from 'Canada, representing an expenditure of £18,423. > Following are the number of cars a,nc! car chassis imported in the first nine months of each year

-A' total «f IB tarieK, itroodka, wa* -and; buses, vatessl art £®BB, was xngxirted,! aid of 'mk mmifter Swe mem team the. and 22 art OSKB, team Canada.: fiat fcr atone. fete Ml M 7748 'cwme anom tbc; United IQqgdoin, waked ;trt CUSI/iaS, 879; fiom tthe ©njfced States, waked at; £81,996, and *77 ifoam Canada, wuitned -at; fflft M 7. chassis imported 'during the IBM three quarters of the past Iflaree years are us

rV; 1932 1933 1934; tlilitatl Kingdom ... 2iC42 1,968 4,058 Ignited States Cjftjiada 196 ,87 IQS . 176 3,367 1,337 Italy 1 — — itvanoe 2 1 —

1932 1933 1934 United Kingdom ... 1;673 1,566 3,SIT United States 136 43 2,487. Canada 85 129 1,038 Italy 1 — ■— 7 France 2 1 f' .Totals —. ... TJ8K7 1,130 tfiisafci

follows: — £932 1933 1934' : United Knifjfiem .. an 402 747; United States ... .. (8© bl»j 886 panada ' 2 56 281: Totals ... m 520 1,914,