AUSTRALIAN DEMAND RISES 5 PER CENT.
(2 p.m) CANBERRA Mav 21. Australia’s petrol consumption has risen only about 5 pet cent at the result of the abolition of rationing, according to the Minister of Fuel, Senator McLeay, who said *hat the increase was small despite the special demand for petrol created by the long Melbourne tram strike and heavy buying when rationing ended He claimed that the operation of the unrationed market strikingly vindicated the claim the Government had made that rationing bad outlived its usefulness.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23269, 2 June 1950, Page 6
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86AUSTRALIAN DEMAND RISES 5 PER CENT. Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23269, 2 June 1950, Page 6
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