AUSTRALIA
CHILD GUESTS. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] CANBERRA, June 29. Senator Foil stated that applications received from Australian people were sufficient to provide home for 15,000 British children. PETROL RATIONING. MELBOURNE, June 29. As a preliminary to the introduction of petrol rationing, the Minister of Supply (Sir F. Stewart) announced that a plan had been approved by the Government for the pooling of all petrol products in Australia. All storage and distribution facilities for petroleum products would be pooled by agreement with the oil companies. Individual trading by bulk suppliers would cease when the scheme became operative, after which all sales would be made by the pool, under a common pool brand.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 29 June 1940, Page 5
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