Chch petrol use up
Christchurch motorists are still using more petrol than they did last year, in spite of the week-end sales ban and Government pleas to reduce consumption by 10 per cent. Figures supplied by the City Treasurer (Mr F. M. Sowden) yesterday showed that 59,057,025 litres of petrol were sold in metropolitan Christchurch during the last three months--5.5 per cent more than the 56,003,220 litres sold in the corresponding quarter last year. The figures are used bv the oil companies as a base for their local authority petrol tax payments — still
computed on a flat 3c a gallon — to the territorial local authorities in metropolitan Christchurch. Consequently the payment, which is made direct to the Christchurch City Council and disbursed by it to the other local bodies, also increased by 5.5 per cent, to $389,397.
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Press, 18 July 1979, Page 3
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