N.Z. TOPS THE LIST.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 38, 24 January 1936, Page 8

N.Z. TOPS THE LIST.

Buyers of British Motor-cars. ! ! NEARLY £IOO,OOO WORTH PURCHASED IN 1935. i I London, January 12. j Now Zealand Jaal year became Hie i biggest overseas purchaser id' British j motor-cars. Tile Roan! of Trade re- | tarns, issued 10-d:iy, reveal that the I Dominion imported 822 1 ears, valued | at £952.(520—an increase ef iR’44.000 | compared with 19,’M. i South Africa was Britain’s next | host car customer, buying .d 50P,211 ; worth. | Sir Herbert Austin said to-day that jin view of (he Invite increase, British I manufacturers will be compelled to I vole for and do all in their power to j foster trade reciprocity with New i Zealand. j Mr W. E. Routes, deputy chairman ■ of the Hnniber-llillmaii.Commer group | said, “The United Kingdom motor inj dustry will not he unmindful that | New Zealand’s capacity lo buy British j cars depends on our support of her i .great dairying industry.’’