PETROL HOARDING IN AUSTRALIA
MELBOURNE, Sept 27.
A conference of State Premiers will to-day consider the seizure of hoarded petrol stocks, said the Premier, Mr Holloway. He said the State Governments believed that ‘petrol hogs” were now hear ding large stocks of petrol in anticipation of the reimposition of petrol rationing. The Victorian State Premier said the conference would probably agree to a ticket rationing scheme which the Commonwealth would administer and finance. Under the scheme fill motorists would probably get ten per cent, less petrol than undei' the previous scheme. The controls would probably operate from November 1.
All the State Governments, except Victoria, have agreed to the transfer of their rationing powers to the Commonwealth Government. Victoria proposes to administer its own rationing parallel with the Commonwealth scheme, but will not transfer its powers.
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Grey River Argus, 28 September 1949, Page 5
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