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Imported cars

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Imported cars

Bumper to bumper, these brand-new Mitsubishis have just been unloaded onto a Wellington wharf, for resale to the consumer. Imported consumer products such as vehicles make up the bulk of New Zealand’s total imports.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1994/3251/25

by Phil Reid

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Ganesh Nana, Industrial sectors – Tertiary sector, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/23158/imported-cars (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Ganesh Nana, published 7 December 2009.