Self-Rationing To Replace Special Licenses ?

Northern Advocate, 24 February 1940, Page 5

Self-Rationing To Replace Special Licenses ?

It is learned on reliable authority that the system of petrol special licenses is shorly to be abandoned. The scheme will be replaced, it is understood, by a system of special coupons which will be given over a reasonablely long period. The A.A. Patrol, interrogated on the matter, said he had nothing official on the scheme, but he believed the coupon system would make it possible for commercial users to regulate their supply of coupons according to their work. Often the holder of a petrol special license found that one month was heavy and the following month a comparatively light one s<3 far as petrol consumption was concerned. Self Rationing. The issuing over a period of petrol coupons based on estimated requirements as were the petrol special licenses, would enable users to regulate their own requirements, saving from lean months to compensate for heavy ones. The Whangarei Postmaster (Mr L. A. Burns) understood that the coupon scheme would be coming into operation to replace the licenses scheme. He had, as yet, received no official information as to the workings of the new proposal and could not comment upon it.