ÜBIQUITOUS CAR
MANY IN PAWNSHOPS
SOL!) FOR CURS OF COFFEE
PARIS, Dec. 29
Motor cars and motor-cvelcs arc last becoming as numerous as the time-hon-oured watch lor the purpose of pledging. The municipal pawn shop to-day requested the Paris Council to vote £75.000 for the erection of a threesloroved garage to house the ears. Tims far 600 are in pawn, there being no loner Ilian 190 pledged this year. Another use for the motor-car is reported from Rome, the owner selling bis car to a cafe proprietor for 10,000 coffees. The cafe is bound to provide codec to tlie seller or his friends as often as limy he requested. It is calculated that it will take lie tween six and eight years to pay ofT t he debt.
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Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1929, Page 2
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