How Many?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 278, 14 February 1928, Page 7

How Many?

MOTOR VEHICLE TOTALS. MANY NOT LICENSED. At the beginning of last year there wer£ 166,816 motor vehicles of all kinds in New Zealand. Of that number 17,387 vehicles were not licensed, and were not carrying the current number plates. That total included. several thousand second-hand cars in garages, and perhaps not a few owners have evaded their legal obligations by subterfuge. These figures give the totals up to the beginning of November: — Total No. Number not registered, licensed. Cars .. 108,729 7,367 Trucks .. .. .. 21,272 1,798 Buses 1,104 187 Traction engines .. 475 150 Trailers 805 243 Tractors .. . .. 339 74 Others .. ... .. 410 16 Motor-cycles .. .. 33,682 7,485 166,816 17,387

An elderly man was cycling down the street when a dog rushed across tne road, and, getting under the *ront wheel, threw him on the ground in a sitting position. Immediately a crowd collected, and the dog, excited by so many people, rushed round and round the cyclist, seeming to enjoy it. ‘ Did you have an accident or something?” asked one of the audience. “Oh, no,” retorted the old fellow: “I threw myself down so that I could play, with the

“A proposal that every motor-car should have a red light on the ‘port side, and a green one on the ‘starboard* side, was put forward at a meeting of the London Safety F*irst Council.”—Cable message. And why not a lookout? And .a pilot, too.' Excellent! Dumb cops could de descried from the masthead as “shoal ••.head,” and intersections as “squall apnroac’ning three points on the sta’bd bow. • We could even have boarding partiea for road hogs’ cars. Other things, too, Jfs .quit© intriguing,