The Motor and Prosperity

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 706, 4 July 1929, Page 5 (Supplement)

The Motor and Prosperity

GARS A NECESSITY aids to progress rE motor vehicle is to-day considered an essential factor in New Zealand’s development. The time was when motors were considered a luxury for the few, but the motor is now more than a pleasure car it is an absolute necessity. Motor transport has opened up for settlement lands not previously available, has quickened communication between every town in New Zealand and has been a big factor in increasing the prosperity of the country. The object of holding our annual A. & P. Shows and Industrial Exhibitions is to educate the public as to the extent and development of New Zealand’s primary and manufacturing industries. Several Auckland motor agents are exhibiting in this year’s Winter Exhibition to show the public the very latest product of the finest engineering brains of the world. Cars submitted for inspection are in every case standard factory production and when one investigates the modern machines and compares them with those of only a few years ago, one must be struck with the immense improvements made. There is no such thing as standing still. One must either progress or be left in this commercial age, and it is acknowledged the world over that mechanical transport has definitely ousted earlier methods of moving passengers and goods, from the day of the old bullock and mule teams at three miles an hour to present day transport of 40 miles an hour. There is economy of labour.

time, and running expense, which must necessarily be followed by greater productivity and greater earning power. Consternation has occasionally been expressed at the sale of ordinary pleasure cars in the

Dominion at the rate of over l 000 a month. Such absorption is only a healthy tendency in a community with such a creditable per capita wealth. The individual is no longer bound to suit his whims to the needs of the major-

ity. He can make his home further from his place of employment. The social effect of this : suburban development is very important, and it is essentially a benefit produced by the motor age.