MOTOR-CAR IMPORTS
NINE PER CENT DECLINE VALUED AT £5,429,875 Motor vehicles imported into New Zealand last year were lower by 9 per cent compared with the record total for 1937, according to a return prepared by the Comptroller of Customs. There were 33,4 64 vehicles brought into the Dominion last year, against 36,7 61 in 1937, a decline of 3297. The total for 1936 was 30,265, and for 1935 it was 20,825. The 33,464 vehicles imported last year were valued for purposes of assessment duty at £5,429,875, which represents a decline of £356,508, compared with the dutiable value of the 1937 imports. In that year the value of motor vehicles imported, £5,786,383, was a record for New Zealand, the total being very substantially above | the 1929 record of £4,278,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 12
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129MOTOR-CAR IMPORTS Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20728, 11 February 1939, Page 12
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