FAKED COUPONS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 4

FAKED COUPONS

ON PETROL MARKET .SOUTH ISLAND REPORT (0.c.) CHRISTCHI RCH, this day. A greater distribution of petrol was considered essential by the annual meeting of the Automobile Association (Canterbury) if it was the Government's desire that motorists should keep their cars mobile. A motion, urging a greater amount of petrol to motorists was carried, and it was pointed out that on the present ration it had become impossible to keep cars in working condition. &

~l n, ,d . i sc ussing the petrol situation, Mr. W. R. Carey said that the tyre position was almost more acute than petrol. But with the private motorist a good set of tyres would last five or six years, and with the present petrol position, tyres were more inclined to rot out than wear out He understood, said Mr. Carey that the petrol position in New Zealand at the present time was not as bad as it was made out to be, and petrol was still arriving in the Dominion, it was for this reason that the South Island Motor Union had urged the re-introduction of full coupon value. Mr. J. S. Hawkes, who is a member of the Oil Fuel Committee, said that he was mystified at the number of cars on the road in spite of the restrictions. He did not know how they did it. Mr. Hawkes added that there were a certain number of faked coupons on the market. The committee was anxious to know where they came from.