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Show Canada Building Up Export Auto Trade OTTAWA. Ont., Au. I (By A. B.) Automobllaa j((anufarturd In Canada Can-ada numbered' lvl.907 In HJJ. amord-Ina amord-Ina to a report juat complied by the domlnoln bureau ot etatlatlca Thla waa an Increaaa of U par sent over lb 1111 output. Tha total valua of tha care manufactured, manu-factured, tha flguree enow, waa 111,-6.1. 111,-6.1. Capital Inveated In tha Industry In-dustry amounted to Its. 131. 014. Ma-teriala Ma-teriala utilised In conatructlon bad a valua of IS4.40I.T1. Waea amount-ad amount-ad to "U.tll.OM and lit peraona were employed In the Indue try duiinc the year. The automobile Indoatry haa experienced expe-rienced a remarkable development In Canada In the laat five yeare. Production Pro-duction haa practically doubled alnee 1117. Capital Inveated haa Increaaed nearly 100 per cent In the period and the value of production haa grown from iM.4ft.t71 to Ml.,&f.42t. Moat of the automobllee manufactured manufac-tured In Canada are eold in the dominion, domin-ion, although a proeperaue export trade la being built up with Bouth America, tha United Kingdom. Australia. Aus-tralia. South Africa. Mexico. Norway, Sweden and the Netherlanda. Automobllee Au-tomobllee reftetered In Canada now number 114.0.1. Tha dominion atanda aeeond to the United Rtatea aa tha greateet automobile ownlnff nation. Canada. Ilka tha ITnltAt States, haa a large percentage of automobllaa on farma. In many dlstrlcta In the prairie prai-rie provlncee, where eettlement has been rapid In recent yeara. nrarly 75 per cent of the , automobllee are owned on farma. , i , |