PETROL RESTRICTIONS

Press, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23088, 2 August 1940, Page 12

PETROL RESTRICTIONS

' TO THE EDITOR O T THE PRESS. Sir, —As one of the small business* men whose living is being gradually • strangled by the petrol restrictions, may I ask the oil fuel controller some , questions“through you? ! • I understand that the school teacher, at Dunsandel drives from Christchurch to Dunsandel and return every ■ day. Incidentally. , there, is good > accommodation available there which, if ■; , used by' the teacher, would probably save 30 gallons a month. ' Also the . teachers <of the following schools follow the same practice:—Halswell, Tai - Tapu, Lincoln. Greenoark. Ladbrooks, andr Erebbleton. At Prebbleton more than orie car is used by three teachers. a bus running to Leeston passes- this school from Christchurch before 9. a m., returning in the late afternoon."; I am "sure other readers of . your paper could supplement this small : list, with other instances, pntil the list would look like a Stone’s Directory. YouTs^etc?, * . ATTACK. ♦Julyha. 1940. v ■ [Commenting on this letter the Dis- - strict Oi>Fuel Controller said: “The lice&es 4 ’ issued. to a number of school ’teachers, have 'recently been reviewed, •and only in* those cases where the use or motor-cycles is con\Jmtered -essential have the licences *•' men renewed. In a nweiber of country districts suitable accommodation -is not available: consequently, the F-tgadher must live in or near the city* • -are not granted in cases 'where it Js known that other means of conveyance are available.’ ]