LATE LOCALS.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 June 1925, Page 3

LATE LOCALS.

“ Everybody will congratulate the young New Zealander who has stepped into tile .shoes ul our late leader,’ siitl Sir H. Heaton Rhodes. Minister of Pensions, at a gathering of Druids at Wellington on Friday. “ He rules over a Cabinet almost wholly composed of New Zealanders, and the only member who is not a New Zealander by birth arrived in this country when lie was two years old.’’ (Applause.)

A recent issue of the “ British Commercial News " says great interest, fits recently been aroused in French motoring circles hv the purchase of the Leon Bollee Works at l.e Mails by Mr w. R. Mollis. Mr Morris’s action was explained in a speech given by him tit the annual Morris staff dinner on January 10th. "If I want to sell Britishmade ctirs in France,” said Mr Morris, ‘•'l am fated by the almost insuperable obstacle of a 62 per cent. duty. The result is that, instead of trying to sell ia France the cars that you Englishmen make here, 1 have recently purchased one of the largest- automobile factories in France as a going concern, which means that French labour will l e making French Morris ears for the French market. 1 admire the spirit of the French Government that makes it necessary for me to do this, and 1 only wish that our own Government were i t ho .sail’,?.” At this factory in Le Mans Mr Morris proposed producing a. Morris Leon Bollee car; in other words a Leon Bollee ear turned out by the now famous Morris methods.