MUCH CAR-SELLING ACTIVITY

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 85, 27 April 1937, Page 4

MUCH CAR-SELLING ACTIVITY

Hawke's Bay Regisirations Increase C0MPARIS0N OF FIGURES Hawke's Ray is hecomiag more "car-minded" every year — a surc sign' that econom-'c conditions ara iraproving. When times are bad, car salesmen find that "prospects" * are few and far between, for tight purse-strings frown upon luxury lines. The number of car registrations for the Hawke's Bay postal district has increased from 9080 in 1934 to 11,176 as at March 31, 1937, an increaise of 2096 in four years. Following in the waka of better car saies has coxne a wider and freer circulation of the province's currency, a firmer faitH in the future and a stimulation of activity in the car-selling business of all towns of Hawke"s Bav. There are at present 8542 privately owned motor-cars in the Hawke's Bay postal district, whi'ch extends from Dannevirke to "Wairoa, Of these, 3007 are in Hastings and 2352 in Napier* Trade vehicles number 2634, of Which 901 are in Hastings and 646 in Napier. The increase over the past fouf years in the number of trade vehicles would lead one to believe that competitive forms of goods carriage might have sufi'ered, but such is. not the casej commercial life in Hawke's Bay has beeome more active in iall avenues. The Chief Postmaster at Napier, Mr A. Pellow, has supplied details of the yearly growth in the numbers of private and trade vehicles since 1934. A study of his table, which appears below, will reveal that, although in 1935 the number of priviate cars in Napier decreased by four and trade vehicles in Hastings by two, the general increase for the whole district over the period has been steady. Ths figures are as follow: —

• Total f o* Napier Hastings district 1934 1,877 2,347 6,799 1935 1,873 2,477 7,105 1936 2,120 2,731 7,748 1937 2,352 3,007 8,542

PRIVATE CARS.

Total f o* Napier Hastings district 1934 579 825 2,281 1935- 557 822 2,254 1936 601 858 2,419 1937' 646 901 2,634

TRADE CARS