THIS YEAR'S OLYMPIA.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19150, 5 November 1927, Page 3

THIS YEAR'S OLYMPIA.

Worlds Best Exhibits.

OPENING CEREMONY TO-NIGHT.

Christchurch's Ninth Olympia will be opened this eraiag by the Mayor (Mr J. K. Archer) in the King Edward Barracks, and will be found to be unusually interesting, the models on exhibition consisting of the litest productions of Britain, America, and the Continent, ape of which have arrived during the last few days.

Women will find much to appeal to them, for it is .recognised that when a family.has decided to purchase jiear, which frequently happens ■, during Carnival Week, IMs important that it should please the mother. Many of # latest exhibits, therefore, will be found to be harmoniexternally, the interiors being furnished lifli equal taste. It will be seen that as a rule colours are inclined to be brighter than usual, and that good use taken made of delicate shades. Little details, such as fSmtiat ornaments, hood louvres, and the like, have been thought, the result being that exterior details more attractive than previously. Great fflnlbn has also been paid to equipment, while chassis tppßiral. The popularity of the closed car has resulted Pde range of this'type of vehicle, but at the same i open car has hot been neglected. . '.= : --" "•"'-'-"

Iff The great advance being made in the industry in the Jwinion has demonstrated that within a few years there 'til be a car for every family. This proportion will, of ;-ipne,be a good deal smaller than that obtaining in the flatted States, where it is common, for families to possess Unfortunately, however, for New Zealand, the imaufacturing centres are so far away as to preclude the feasibility of such a state of affairs here owing to the "ketrier costs of a car in the first instance and its upkeep.

With regard to the latter question, there is a great ■division of opinion. Recently an English Judge stated tint no man could afford to run a car on a smaller income sJkia-£ISOO a year. If this were true it would be a sad ruling for the industry, but, fortunately, it is quite an ejrtpnequs idea. There are hundreds of people whose in?MMi&o not exceed £4OO who find it possible to possess neh a vehicle. They do not, of course, use their cars fir business purposes, but for taking their families out ftr a trip during week-ends or pn holidays, and many of ftem have sufficient initiative to carry out minor repairs iMch others less capable would have to pay a service to do.. The point is that the cost of running a ,«f on the man who owns it; some motorists, who tttetheir cars as indicated, can do so on under 20s weekly, Vtaeas others could not manage it on £lO weekly.

w There is a greater inducement to buy a car to-day than '•jar-before. Mass production and the utilisation of oe best brains in designing and improving motor-vehicles Ui their parts have resulted in probably better value being Bjwa in these products than any other line turned out ny a factory. A car may be bought ow advantageous wins, enabling the purchaser to pay for it while he has Jw use of it, and no difficulty is experienced insofar as wmore popular makes are concerned in procuring spare } parts should the necessity for them arise. Besides this, * t'jj»»ed, reducing the.cost of tyres and petrol, and making a possible to cover distances in a day that at one time *wld'constitute a week's journey under uncomfortable : conditions. The coming into operation of *the Daylight #*tog Act, giving an extra hour of daylight, should make * tflf possession of a car more desirable. While the sales of motor-cars have suffered to some extent owing to the depression from which the Dominion |M unfortunately not yet recovered, those engaged in the * I2* lß * are *y no me ans pessimistic regarding the future. ; «ey do not agree that the.saturation point has been attached, and hold the view that although the number of I <w<wners in New Zealand has grown to such dimensions |rg%,the last few years, most of them will follow the *-2 Atnerica » *&& as their present vehicles become worn lym trade them in for a newer model. In any case, there i2? ** a lar 6* amount of business to be done every year 'Sr^ ose who still have t0 acquaint themselves with the *«»efits of an automobile.