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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 48, 20 November 1920, Page 9

. The buying' of-motor-cars goes on: as brisklv as ever, states the "New Zealand Heralcl." In fact, according to one dealer, business has never been so good as it is now. Large numbers of «nianhines aro arriving, but the market is eager and quickly absorbs them. "There is no indication at all that .people'' aro holding oil'," an importer said. The adverse rate of exchange; he added, made no difference. ' His firm was not altering its prices, because they believed that tho rate of exchange would not stop where it was. .The tendency of retail prices to fall hf the United States was tint yet reflected in New Zealand. Tho majority of the United States factories whose motor-cars were most in demand showed no tendency to fall. On the other hand, in many eases tlie dealers had been guaranteed against alteration in the factory prices. Many motor vehicles are being imported for'commercial purposes. There is said to be an especially heavy demand for motor-trucks suitablo for tho carriage of metal and timber. Sufficient of these machines could not bo obtained, said the manager of- one firm. United States motor-cars form the preponderance of those arriving at present. One man had just tlm first- of 11 mnchines,ordered from England in October, 1918," and it would probably lie some raonths before the last arrived.

At a meeting at Edinburgh of the Roval Scots Greys, field-Marshal Sir William Robertson, colonel-in-chief, presiding, a s-'cheino waa i.dopted for establishing regimental clubs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and "York as a memorial to menvbere of tks .rcgiinsnt vrliq fsli is tj*»