CHEAPER PETROL.
RETAIL PRICE GREIKTLY REDUCED. (Received 27, 12. noon.) London. September 26. The English retail price of petrol has been reduced by sjd to 2/ a gallon. Petroleum lamp oil is now 1/ a gallon. The reductions are the result of a fall in America, coupled with a reduction in freight. Not only motorists. but the public generally, are greatly pleased, a& it will reduce the cost of living by cheapening road transport rates, possibly leading to lower railway rates and taxitab and ’bus fares. Already drastic cuts in air fares are announced, notably London to Berlin to 110/. equal to a fraction of over 2d a mile.—(A. and N.Z.)
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 5
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111CHEAPER PETROL. Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XII, Issue 243, 27 September 1922, Page 5
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