Petrol Move Discussed By Automobile Assn

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32072, 21 August 1969, Page 12

Petrol Move Discussed By Automobile Assn

Proposed amendments to the Dangerous Goods Regulations to permit the use of self-service petrol pumps should make a pump attendant unnecessary and the consequent savings should have a considerable bearing on the costs of selling petrol which were causing concern in the trade, the general manager of the Automobile Association (Canterbury). Mr E. S. Palliser, said yesterday. Mr Palliser said the) national motoring and traffic committee of the association’s council yesterday considered the restriction on petrol sales hours announced by the Canterbury branch of the New Zealand Retail Motor Trade Association. The committee had resolved to express regret that ) the motor trade association should consider it necessary to take steps which could have an adverse effect on the convenience of the motoring niihlir

Mr Palliser said the committee had before it copies of correspondence between the New Zealand Automobile Association and the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr Seath) on the question of self-service petrol pumps.

“The introduction of these pumps has been advocated periodically during the last seven years by the automobile association movement. The Minister’s advice that the Government has now approved in principle the introduction of unattended selfservice pumps in this country, and that the Dangerous Goods Regulations will be

amended to ensure public safety in the use of these pumps, was naturally received with gratification,” Mr Palliser said.