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THE Government should help the motor industry to open up new export markets. This statement was made last week by Mr. S. B. Wilks,
managing directOr, the Rover Co., Ltd. Several thousands of the company's workers engaged upon production of Land-Rovers have begun a four-day week because of the reduction in demand created by import restrictions in Australasia and elsewhere.
Mr. Wilks said: "Inevitably the cur tailment of imports into. ourestablished markets has had an effect on our LandRover production, which we had virtu ally doubled during the last 12 months to meet the overseas demand.
"1 believe that new markets are av affable but exhortations by the Govern ment are not a substitute for active aid such as the negotiation of reciprocal trade agreements.
"We need from the Government a better understanding of the export problems of the industry and their help, or at the very least their permission, to open up those markets which are clamouring for our goods."
CARRIED 21,000 TO RHYL
NEARLY 21,000 people were carried to Rhyl last summer by Don Everall, Ltd., Wolverhampton, Mr. H. Cook told a sub-committee of Rhyl local authority when the company applied for special terms to park coaches in Greenfield Place. The council accepted the company's offer to pay 2s. 6d. for day excursion coaches, and are to charge £10 for reserving space for a minimum of 10 coaches on Saturday services.