TRANSPORT FOR HOME GUARD
Sir, —The decision of the Metropolitan Licensing Authority in denying the use of buses to the Home Guard surely takes the prize as the latest example of official muddleheadedness. The decision is indefensible in that it actually runs counter to the national policy of conserving those precious materials, petrol and rubber. One member of the board suggested that Army trucks should be provided. Does he not realise that the passenger capacity of one tramway bus is equal to three Army trucks, and that this would involve the use of three sets of tyres in place of one as at present. Furthermore, Army trucks would first have to travel to Christchurch from the outlying camps. Three trucks for one, multiplied by three times the aggregate vehicle mileage, amounts to nine times the amount of rubber expended. It is scandalous that, with the enemy practically at our gates, a local board should be permitted to reach a decision, the effect of which would be to sabotage the efficiency of our fighting forces, or vital materials essential to our war effort— Yours, etc., EFFICIENCY IN WAR. August 11, 1942.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23714, 12 August 1942, Page 4
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