MOTOR ADVANCE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 215, 10 September 1937, Page 3

MOTOR ADVANCE

EVERY MONTH A RECORD The use of motor vehicles in New Zealand is increasing so rapidly that every month of the past year has been a record for registrations. The Transport Division of the Post Office finds that the highest registrations of any month are made in December, and the figures then fall off to the lowest point which is reached in May of each year. May of this year was, however, a record month, the registrations of new vehicles being 3001, compared with 2420 in May, 1936. The remarkable expansion shown by the latest figures comes more strongly into relief when the motor registrations of last May (3001) are compared with the total of 327 in May, 1933, and ‘25 in May, 1932. With the registrations taking place at these rates the results for the seven months of 1937 (January-July inclusive) compared with the cor- | responding months' of the previous year constitute a series of new records, and demonstrate how rapidly the motor fleets of the Dominion are increasing:—

There is a corresponding activity in connection with changes of ownership of motor vehicles, the transport division having had to deal with no fewer , than 87,535 notifications of this character during the first seven months ' current year.

1937 1936. New cars 16,957 13,307 New cycles 1,837 1,320 New Commer. vehicles 5,334 4,175 Total (7 months) 24,128 18,802