PETROL SUPPLIES

Manawatu Standard, Volume LX, Issue 227, 23 August 1940, Page 2

PETROL SUPPLIES

MOTORISTS QUESTIONED. SOURCES SOUGHT. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Aug. 22. Motorists using the Hutt Road more or less regularly are being noted by inspectors and asked by a letter from the Sub-District Oil Fuel Controller to explain the source of their petrol supplies, it was stated at a recent meeting of the executive of the Wellington Motor Trade Association. The association decided to bring this to the notice of the Oil Fuel Controller and to ask him to state the authority under which it was being done. A copy of a letter from the Wellington Sub-District Oil Fuel Controller, reading as follows, was placed before the meeting: “I have to advise that on several occasions recently your car No.——was observed travelling on the Hutt Road between Lower ITutt and Wellington during the hours of 7 a.m. and 9.15 a.m. It would appear, therefore, that the vehicle is being used for the purpose of conveyance between your residence and places of business. I shall be glad, therefore, to be informed whether such is the position and, if so, to be advised as to how sufficient oil fuel is being obtained to enable this running to be done.” Concern at the effect on the industrial life of the community of the recent further reductions in petrol allocations for commercial purposes was expressed at the monthly meeting of the council of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association. A sub-cominit-tee was appointed to collaborate with the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation in the approach to the Government for immediate relief from the present drastic restrictions. Members considered that these, if maintained, would inevitably result in decreased production from manufacturing units.