BUSINESS CHANGE.
WILES' OIL DEPARTMENT.
ATLANTIC UNION PURCHASE.
The petrol and oil department of 11. O. Wiles, Ltd., of Auckland, has been acquired by the Atlantic Union Oil Company. Mr. Wiles will reain in charge of the company's distribution in the Auckland Province. -The future of the store and service station maintained by H. O. Wiles, Ltd., has not been settled, but the policy of the Atlantic Union Oil Company will be to deal wholesale, and not conduct service pumps.
The three bulk tanks in Beaumont Street, Freeman's Bay, are almost completed .and it is expected deliveries under the new organisation will commence within a month. The tanks have each a capacity of 400,000 gallons, and they are fitted with floating roofs. 0a the same site a building has been provided to store up to 85,000 cases of petrol for farm or launch use. A depot lias been established at Frankton to cater for the Waikato, and there are other distributing points in the Soutli. Bulk tanks are to be built in Wellington, and railway tank cars will supply the inland centres.
Petrol punins to handle the two grades marketed by the oil company are being installed in a number of Auckland garasres. The other'departments of H. O. Wiles. T.td.. will be continued in new offices in the Tasrmn Buildinjrs, Anzac Avenue, and the Atlantic Union quarters will be in the rooms' at present occupied bv the general business of H. 0. Wiles, Ltd.—(Ad.) '
BUSINESS CHANGE.
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 123, 26 May 1928, Page 12
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