GREAT WASTE OF PETROL
O.C. AUCKLAND, This Day. Objection to the holding of a parade next Saturday to celebrate the defeat of Italy has been taken by the chairman of the Whangarei County Council, Mr. J. A. S. Mackay. • , Replying to a telegram from the Prime Minister, Mr. Mackay has sent the following:—"ln reply to your telegram regarding a nation parade to symbolise New Zealand's part in the whole war effort, I regret that as such a parade would involve the consumption of enormous quantities of petrol which are urgently required for the production of food for our soldiers, those of our Allies, and our civilian population, I am unable to advise my colleagues to take part in such a parade until we are t able to liberate our prisoners of war' and are assured that there is no further danger of our men being called on to sacrifice their young lives while fighting our battles. : "May I add that many of our people have already celebrated the fall of Italy with a minimum of interference with their desperate efforts to main- : tain production under difficulties which are daily increasing. The acute lack of petrol has a prominent place among those difficulties." '.■■'■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1943, Page 6
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