DOMINION MOTORING
£25,000,000 PER YEAR SPENT. EXTENSIVE USE OF PETROL. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, Friday. '.. Remarkable facts concerning the motor transportation in New Zealand were quoted by Mr A. Tyndall, engineer to the Main Highways Board, in the course of a lecture which he delivered to students of Canterbury College School of Engineering. Among the statements made by Mr Tyndall were the following:— At least £25,000,000 per annum is spent in New Zealand on motoring. The combined expenditure on the motor, railway and tramway transport is equal to 10s per week per head of population. „... nnft New 'Zealand imported 55,000,UUU gallons of motor spirit last year, which, in terms of car mileage, is equivalent to about 1,100,000,000 miles of travel per year, or about 3,000,000 miles per day. One pint of petrol is consumed per day for every man, woman and child in the Dominion. The consumption of petrol is equal to about five or six passenger miles per day for every inhabitant of the Dominion. __^________ —
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3189, 16 August 1930, Page 8
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