PROTEST TO MINISTERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 17, 15 October 1943, Page 4

PROTEST TO MINISTERS

Sale And Distribution Of Army Vehicles A protest against methods adopted in selling and distributing motor-vehicles and the supply of low-grade vehicles while good ones were withheld from sale is made in a resolution of the N.Z. Motor Trade Association conveyed to the Prime Minister, the Minister of Supply and the Minister of Transport. The resolution, was adopted at the association’s recent annual meeting in Wellington, but withheld from publication till it had been forwarded to Mr. Fraser and the other Ministers. The meeting, fully representative of the whole retail motor trade throughout New Zealand*, discussed the distribution of vehicles released by the Government for sale to the civilian market. The outcome was a resolution expressing “strong protest against the unbusinesslike methods adopted to date in the sale and distribution of Army vehicles. At the request of the Government constructive suggestions have been made by the trade, but to date there is no evidence of any attempt to take advantage of same. Jhe trade also expresses concern that the most essential transport users whose transport demands the best quality of truck have actually been supplied of necessity with inefficient low-grade vehicles, while at the same time good suitable vehicles available were withheld from sale.”