CONSUMPTION IN AUSTRALIA
(Rec. 8 p.m.) CANBERRA. May 31. Australia's petrol consumption has risen only about 5 per cent, as the result of the abolition of rationing, according to the Minister of Fuel, Senator George McLeay, who said that the increase was small in spite of the special demand for petrol created by the long Melbourne tram strike and heavy buying when rationing ended. He claimed that the operation of the unrationed market strikingly vindicated the claim the Government nade that rationing had outlived its usefulness.
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Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26127, 1 June 1950, Page 6
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