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Table No. 1.—Table showing, by Postal Districts, the Number of Motor-vehicles licensed as at 31st March, 1948, under the Motor-vehicles Act, 1924

Postal District. Cars. Rental Cars. Private-hire Cars. Light Trucks (i.e., 2 tons and under Laden). Heavy Trucks (i.e., over 2 tons Laden). Passengertrucks. Omnibuses. Taxis. Service Cars. 0 £ 5 Dealers' Cars. Local-body and other Vehicles exempted from Annual Licence Pees. Government Vehicles. Dealers' Cycles. Motor-cycles. Totals. Whangarei Auckland Thames Hamilton Gisborne Napier New Plymouth Wanganui Palmerston North Masterton "Wellington Totals, North Island .. Blenheim Nelson Westport Greymouth Christchurch Timaru Oamaru' Dunedin Invercargil Totals, South Island .. Totals, New Zealand .. 6,464 41,657 7,939 18,807 4,217 10,123 10,379 7,188 12,702 4,758 21,194 15 203 41 110 15 52 68 29 41 10 137 14 71 6 18 1 6 6 9 6 2 18 1,628 4,898 1,806 3,918 950 2,322 2,123 1,493 2,417 1,098 2,633 1,089 4,965 1,291 2,906 620 1,509 1,876 1,135 1,625 778 2,458 147 200 74 257 102 127 87 56 100 100 131 North li 53 334 37 110 32 59 28 11 55 11 167 'land 81 413 69 190 55 78 54 59 67 23 299 42 66 22 92 20 30 19 25 36 10 53 774 4,299 1,114 2.735 496 1,163 764 685 1.736 608 1,641 42 283 47 135 35 58 75 39 70 29 195 534 1,365 812 1,430 432 771 848 512 853 434 369 219 1,305 153 1,027 197 311 136 214 402 13 1,905 1 14 2 6 2 7 2 5 2 9 657 4,006 596 1,418 408 712 741 589 960 284 1,865 11,760 64,079 14,009 33,159 7,582 17,321 17,211 12,046 21,075 8,160 33,074 145,428 721 157 25,286 20,252 1,381 897 1,388 415 16,015 1,008 8,360 5,882 50 12,236 239,476 2,268 4,539 617 1,916 29,724 6,283 2,531 13,093 10,051 6 34 4 6 130 56 ' 59 31 4 14 3 9 49 2 ' 16 3 581 1,176 161 469 3,506 1,149 512 2,036 1,715 299 675 137 389 3,197 626 312 1,506 1,446 S 35 43 24 45 171 76 19 153 153 OUtll Islt 9 26 10 30 129 17 5 98 46 %nd 23 37 6 29 161 36 18 187 89 3 67 13 18 61 15 1 46 40 372 548 55 174 3,978 958 364 1,424 1,366 21 22 3 13 174 43 18 76 43 337 432 31 78 3,007 1,012 316 1,362 2,614 9,189 64 276 51 166 1,272 77 17 313 337 1 1 9 1 2 4 3 225 376 82 217 2,960 423 164 1,576 736 4,247 8,266 1,197 3,560 48,528 10,774 4,279 21,949 18,673 71,022 326 100 11,305 8,587 719 370 586 264 9,239 413 2,573 21 6,759 121,473 216,450 1,047 257 36,591 28,839 2,100 1,267 1,974 679 25,254 1,421 17,549 8,455 71 18,995 360,949