TYRES AND TUBES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIII, Issue 10, 13 January 1942, Page 6

TYRES AND TUBES

RESTRICTIONS ON SALE

NEW PURCHASE METHOD

[ Announcing a new procedure for the control of the sale of motor tyres and tubes, both new and old, the Minister of Supply (Mr. Sullivan) said last evening that the restrictions placed on sales last year would-be continued indefinitely. The original restriction was to have expired on January 31, but the present supply position called for continued control. "There is little need for me to stress the necessity for the continued control over tyres and tubes," said Mr. Sullivan, "for recent events have made it more urgent than ever that we should conserve our present and prospective supplies of these articles for' defence and other essential purposes. I am quite sure that the public will realise that the inconveniences and delays which may be caused in procuring tyres and tubes, in the future will be unavoidable if adequate control is to be retained over the disposal of.stocks. However, with a view to minimising the time taken for members of the public to obtain authorisations for the purchase of tyres and tubes, a new procedure is..to be brought into operation this week." ; CONTROL OF SALES. The Minister said that in future,the authorisations for the sale or disposal of tyres and tubes would be in the hands of district officers of the Transport Department in the four main centres and the traffic inspectors in other places. These district officers and traffic inspectors were in close touch with the local petrol advisory committees, and would be in a position to obtain all the necessary information in each individual case. The, new procedure would require that before the sale or disposal of either new, old, or retreaded tyres or tubes could be effected, an application was to be made to the officers conI cerried, who had printed forms available setting out the details required. These forms were to be completed by I the applicant and handed on to the dealer or retreader from whom the tyre or tube was to be obtained. He was appreciative of the co-operation which had been received from the New Zealand Tyre Importers' Association in the matter of arriving at a plan for handling the difficult situation which had arisen with regard to supplies of tyres and tubes, and he was sure that the new procedure would result in a smoothly working system of control which would achieve the desired objective of maximum conservation of supplies with a minimum of inconvenience to those requiring supplies for essential purposes.