BICYCLE IMPORTS
OPINIONS OF WANGANUI IMPORTER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WANGANUI, This Day.' Explaining the effect of import restrictions on the supply of bicycles, a Wanganui importer said a 55 per cent cut had been made in the importation of complete bicycles, but manufacturers would still import the same number of parts as in 1938 under the first period licences. The sale of bicycles in New Zealand each year aggregated about 30,000 and about 20,000 were imported in 1938. Working on a 55 per cent cut. there would be about 9000 bicycles imported this year. There were about 12 manufacturing firms in New Zealand. In England it cost 4s to assemble and enamel a bicycle, as against 15s in New Zealand, so that there would be an’increase of 10s in the price of assembled bicycles in New Zealand. The bulk of the parts came from England, except certain classes of spokes, which were imported from Germany. Most of the dynamos for cycle lignts also come from that country. While doubting the possibility of a shortage of bicycles, he predicted a shortage of tricycles for next Christmas.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 5
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185BICYCLE IMPORTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1939, Page 5
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