RELEASE OF NEW CARS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 09, Issue 21, 6 November 1945, Page 6

RELEASE OF NEW CARS

PRIORITY FOR EX-SERVICEMEN RECOMMENDED CASES Ex'_serviceuien properly recommended by the Rehabilitation Department Avill receive a measure of priority in procuring new cars> as and when they become available. This is announced by the RehabilL tation Department which adds that arrangements to that effect have been made with the. New Zealand Motor Vehicles Importers' Association. General priorities tentatively agreed upon by the vehicle import. 1 ers are in three main categories. The first is lor health-services such as veterinary surgeons, Plunkct and district nurses- and hospital and in this category they have agreed to include applications from ex-servicemen who have been properly recommended by 'the Rehabilitation Department. Such applications are to be for. warded through the Rehabilitation head office to the Secretary of the Motor Vehicles Importers 1 Association in Wellington. Applications arc to be recommended only where, the ' I use of a car is essential to the successful rehabilitation of an ex.ser 1 viceman. The Rehabilitation De I partment at present holds applica. . tions from about 100 ex-servicemer l for the release of a used army motoi • car, all of which have been recom. : mended by Rehabilitation Officer; land Rehabilitation Committees. I These applicants will be given firsl . opportunity to purchase a new cai J should they wish to pay the price asked } since they are taken to rep resent the most urgent cases in eacl: rehabilitation district. It is not, intended to confine appli. cations to this group alone. None Expected This Year "At the it is not expected that any new cars will land in New I Zealand before December 31 " continues the "with the ex. ception of a few demonstratior Imodels. There i§ no information i available as to the quantities, types I makes or price ranges of the can that will be available except the general statement that has appeared lin the Press to the effect that 800t jcars will arrive during the 1946 im. port licensing period and that the estimated price for a 10 horse powei car will be something over £600. "The seconel and third priority categories made by the motor im. I porters are for the procurement production and distribution of good; vital to the economic welfare of the country—and public facilities. The former includes stock and * statior I agents j timber ant hardware merchants fat stock buyI ers and drafters and woolbuyers. I Included in the latter group are service cars and mail runs, gas companies, power boards ane 1 local bodies."