Motorists Questions On Petrol Supplies

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1950, Page 4

Motorists Questions On Petrol Supplies

WELLINGTON, This Day (P.A.).—Because the Government had installed its petrol pumps throughout the country and had imported petrol to supply them, there was presumably at present more petrol in New Zealand than ever before, Mr R. W. Roydhouse, of Carterton, told today’s meeting of the council of the North Island Motor Union. “The Government must have brought petrol in from its own sources. It would not have been drawn from the existing pool,” said Mr Roydhouse. Urging a full inquiry into petrol sources, Mr A. Grayson (Auckland) said that many people in the Motor Unions know more details about the availability of petrol than did the Ministers concerned, who, he said, “accept at face value the statements made by the Home Government.” “It would need very little petrol to abolish oetrol rationing—a mere drop in the sterling pool,” Mr Grayson added. If all the officials engaged in petrol rationing were released to industry the country would benefit by the increased production. The meeting decided that a sub-committee of the union should endeavour to meet the Prime Minister, Mr Holland, and the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Bowden, at an early date to discuss petrol rationing.