PETROL AND AID TO BRITAIN
VOLUNTARY SAVING PREFERRED
Full support for all reasonable measures to conserve petrol in the Aid to Britain campaign was promised at the annual conference of the South Island Motor Union in Christchurch yesterday, and a proposal was made that should the required saving not be made, the allocation to the petrol companies should be cut and control exercised through retailers before resorting to the war-time rationing system. Representatives of the North Island Motor Union said they believed their associations would support this attitude. , When the subject was opened, the meeting expressed strong resentment at the remarks of Mr C. H. Williams at a publicity group meeting in Wellington about the campaign, when ne was reported to have said that the petrol trade was convinced that there was little morality among motorists. It was decided to forward a protest to the Aid to Britain committee. Reference was then made to reports that three separate Government cars had .recently taken four Government representatives from Wellington to Ruatoria and that large buses had travelled empty to Gisborne to pick up passengers from the train for the rest of the journey. There was fairly general criticism that Government departments were guilty of wasting petrol through inefficient organisation. Other delegates said that it was unfair to suggest that the private motorist should carry the whole burden if rationing was introduced. Much could be done to reduce consumption oy commercial users. It was also considered that an unwarranted number of tourist trips were being run by big buses, considering the need 10 save petrol. ’/ ’ A suggestion was made that district quotas might be published, as during the power shortage, so that consumption could be governed voluntarily. It was finally agreed that if voluntary conservation failed, the system m vogue immediately after rationing was lifted, under which control was exercised through wholesalers, should ’ be again introduced in preference to rationing.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 2
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