Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-08-14 | Page 12 | New Zealand is Short of Autos

NE ZEALAND IS SHORT OF AUTOS Dealer Here From Island Says Manufacturers Cant Can't CantFill CantFill CantFill Fill Orders Demands for automobiles in r- r New rew ew Zealand are far in excess of the supply supply sup sup- ply according to J. J H. H Watt of Palm Palm- piston North New Zealand Mr Ir Watt who is stopping in Salt Lake for a few days on his return to the islands from the Eastern states said that the crops this year would be beas beas as large as he had ever seen them On account of the extensive cattle raising much wheat and oats are grown and what is not used within the country is generally exported to England Mr Watt is a retail automobile dealer in P and he states that the sales would have been greater this year than any previous year if it the tho manufacturer could have supplied the goods Many American cars are sold to the inhabitants of the islands each ellch year but war orders have greatly greaty great great- ly y interfered with the output of the companies for private use for the past three or four years he said i Now that the war is over and the f I people know that they might purchase a car the demand has risen far above the supply Mr Watt will leave for San Francisco Francisco Francisco Fran Fran- cisco from which point he will take a boat home