THE SHORTAGE OF PETROL
(BY TELEGIIArn.—rKESS ASSOCIATION.) Ciirlstchurchj April 10. Tho shortage of petrol continues, -.but sosms that tlio position will bo improved vei shortly, Tho local agents, of tlio Colonii Oil .Company have received the followin cabl«gram from their, head loflioe: —"T1 shortage of petrol has given us gro.it coi com for several mouths. Wo havo spot £2000 transhipping supplies • from Australi to New Zealand without having raised' tl: prices. Thirty thousand cases' of- potrol f< N«v Zealand wcro shut out of: steamers lpai ing in New -York.. Wo have arranged,.-f( largo supplies to bo shipped from Sydney I tho Olivo Branch, which was unfortunate] delayed by strikes there for-a month. Th vessel is due to-day in Auckland with 22,5 C cases of naphtha \ind benzino." Tho Colt nial Oil Company has met with consideralj] difficulty of lato in arranging for tho cai riago of petrol and other spirits from No' York to Australasia, owing to tins shippin companies boing unwilling to tako goods c this description oxocpt as dock cargo.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 7
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172THE SHORTAGE OF PETROL Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 7
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