Buses, milk out if fuel not delivered today
An oil companies’' decision not to let the Canterbury Drivers’ Union say to whom fuel deliveries should be made during the present strike by tanker drivers may stop public transport and milk supplies.
Christchurch bus services will stop by tonight unless an emergency delivery of diesel is made to the Transport Board. The board’s diesel supply ran out yesterday morning and buses ran throughout the day only on fuel left in their tanks. The board's accountant (Mr D. Grundy) said some services might stop during the day as buses ran out of fuel and all buses would be off the road by tonight if no diesel was delivered. Eighty of the 150 service stations in Christchurch had run out of super-grade petrol yesterday and slender stocks of regular petrol were not expected to last too long.
The Motor Trade A ciation predicted that
«0 remaining garages would be out of petrol by tomorrow.
The Canterbury Dairy Farmers Milk Station. Ltd. in Blenheim Road could be forced to dump up to 100.000 litres of milk a day if it cannot get oil to produce steam.
The company’s general manager (Mr C. K. Ferguson) said that the last
oil deliveries had been on September 18 and 21. Milk would have to be dumped when the oil ran out. Deliveries of milk to consumers after this afternoon were threatened unless oil was delivered today.
Without steam for processing. milk could not be supplied to vendors.
The Plains Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd, which processed spray skim-milk powder for export, would also be affected.
Mr Ferguson said the president of the Canterbury Trades Council (Mr W. R. Cameron) had told him yesterday morning that tanker drivers were prepared to deliver oil. But Shell Oil (N.Z.), Ltd, had advised him at 1.15 p.m. that no oil would be delivered yesterday and that it did not know when it would be able to resume deliveries.
The secretary of the Canterbury Drivers’ Union (Mr P. Liggett) said the drivers were prepared to make emergency deliveries but were being prevented from doing so by their employers.
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Press, 2 October 1979, Page 1
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