APPEAL FOR OIL CONTAINERS

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 6

APPEAL FOR OIL CONTAINERS

VERY FEW OFFERS MADE LIGHT TRUCKS ALSO NEEDED An appeal was made at a public meeting last week, when speakers explained the organisation of the city's Emergency Precautions Services, for the loan of petrol tins and drums to hold emergency petrol rations for workers in the organisation. Up to yesterday only two tins had been offered. An appeal was also made tor light trucks, but only two had been offered up to last night. This was explained by Mr W. Machin at the public meeting held m the Civic Theatre last evening, at which the organisation was described. Mr Machin. who is on the organising executive of the Emergency Precautions Services, said that he had been disappointed at the result of his appeal. "We wanted to borrow them, not to beg them,” he said. “If you can get some of your friends to leave them with us, give them a hint. We need the petrol drums for an important purpose. Then we asked for 45 or 50 light trucks. We got two offers. Now some of your friends have light trucks they could offer us. Wc med drivers for them, too. We have had many offers, of motor-cars. But in many cases, where motor-cars were offered, there was a tag. “When we got to the last few lines of the letter we found a request for a pass for an invalid in the family or a request for a pass to get the family away as a whole. It is one for the community and two for themselves in most of those cases, although not in all. This scheme is a piece of community wofk and we must all put something in to the community reservoir. We cannot, perhaps, all expect to take something out of that reservoir, but we should fill the community reservoir before the emergency occurs. If some of us go short in an emergency, it will be for the good of others, providing we have filled that community reservoir to the best of our ability. We will all benefit in the long run.”