BRITISH CARS
NO PREFERENCE BHOWN IMPORT REGULATIONS (By TelegTaph.—Press Association) WELLINGTON, Wednesday Comment on the fact that under the Import control scheme so far preference shown to other British industries had not been extended to the motor Industry was made by Mr L. C. Cunningham, manager of Rootes, Limited, London. Rootes. Limited, are exporters of motor-cars and commercial vehicles. Mr Cunningham, who arrived by the Awatea, intends to spend about three weeks in the Dominion. “British business people are sympathetic with the object of the Government, realising the necessity of some action to conserve New Zealand's London funds,” said Mr Cunningham. "I believe, however, that the objective might have been furthered during the first six months of this year by curtailing imports of foreign and secondhand cars. Second-hand cars have been brought into New Zealand in increasing quantities in the past few years, but the business is of no real use to the manufacturing industry in Britain or to the established trade in New Zealand."
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20784, 20 April 1939, Page 2
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