MOTOR VEHICLES
TWELVE PER CENT INCREASE. DETAILS OF RELICENSING. The Motor Registration Branch of the General Post Office has completed its national compilation of the results of the licensing of motor vehicles for the months of May and June last, and reports that the total number of licensed vehicles as at June 30 was 234,775, representing an increase over the corresponding date last year of 25,281, or 12.07 per cent. The various types of vehicles licensed at June 30, and the variation in their numbers compared with the corresponding date of last year, were as follow: — Percentage
During recent years the annual relicensing figures have always disclosed substantial advances even on the basis of yearly comparisons, but the position is even more marked if the development of the last five years is examined. This shows an increase of 87,779 in that period after deducting a drop of 1,193 in the numbers of motor cycles. The expansion was distributed among the following types: Cars 69,533, trucks 11,624, others (the larger proportion being trailers) 7,815.
Type Number Increas increase Cars 169,112 20,245 13.60 Trucks 38,902 2,922 8.12 Others 13,919 2.847 25.71 Cycles 12,842 733* 5.40* — — — Totals 234,775 25,281 12.07 — — — '•Decrease.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1938, Page 9
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198MOTOR VEHICLES Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 July 1938, Page 9
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