PETROL RATIONING TO CONTINUE.

Evening Star, Issue 25716, 13 February 1946, Page 10

PETROL RATIONING TO CONTINUE.

STOP PRESS

Xli3 Commissioner of Transport, Mr G. L. Laurenson, stated to-day that no improvement had been made lately in petrol stocks. Controls would have to remain until the stock position was reasonably safe. Constant representations foxadditional supplies were being made by the Government to the British Government, but the present stock position was anything but good, being a matter of hand-to-mouth. Shipments had come recently from South America and California. Improvement in stocks, however, would depend to a considerable extent, in yiew of the dollar position, upon how long it would take for fuel to be available from sources in the sterling fund area. Mr Laurenson added that the Minister of Supply, Mr D. Sullivan, was most anxious to remove controls at the earliest possible moment. Press Association. PLANTATION FIRE. Five hundred men from Burnham Military Camp fought through the small hours of this morning to prevent the spread of a plantation fire which in the earlier stages threatened to cause' widespread damage to neighbouring plantations, and, in the event of a switch of the wind to the south, to Burnham Camp, only half a mile away, befoi’e it was checked.— Christchurch P.A.