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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22438, 19 September 1947, Page 6

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DOMINION MOTORISTS SAVINGS INADEQUATE VOLUNTARY PLAN DOUBTS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 19. ‘•The petrol trade is convinced that there is little morality among motorists —even less than with the general public —when it comes to making such sacrifices.” said Mr. C. H Williams, reporting on behalf of the petrol sub-com-mittee to a meeting of the Aid-to-Britain's publicity committeeMr. Williams was referring to grave doubts which members of the trade had revealed at a sub-committee meeting as to the probability of motorists voluntarily reducing by 10 per cent the normal petrol consumption of New Zealand.

The stickers, he said, were purely a pledge, and it was considered that motorists would regard them as a license to do what they liked. The sticker itself would contribute nothing to the saving of petrol, but would be merely a decoration for something that was not being done. Mr. R. Fenton commented that the persons most concerned about rationing and. therefore, willing to save were those who had to carry on solely on coupons during the war. Those who had had licenses then would regard themselves today as certain to have generous licenses under any rationing scheme. The committee adopted the report.