Present Petrol Ration For Two Months At Least

Northern Advocate, 9 May 1941, Page 7

Present Petrol Ration For Two Months At Least

TFer Press Association.—Copyright.] CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. “You can take it that the Government’s present policy will be to stay put within the present petrol allowance for private owners for two months at least, unless something unforeseen in the international situation interrupts supplies,” said the president of the South Island Motor Union (Mr. W. R. Carey), at a meeting of the executive of the union last night. Mr. Carey had reported earlier in committee on a national conference representative of petrol consuming interests held in Wellington recently at the request of the Government, to consider petrol cuts. Further Cuts He said that the reduction of half a coupon monthly, which recently had been made, would save another 400,000 gallons a month. It was proposed further to cut down the supply to owners with special licenses. Transport services would not be unduly curtailed at the moment. Local bodies would be circularised with a request for voluntary reduction in consumption. Government Departments were to be asked to make cuts also, and a further attempt would be made to reduce, by zoning methods, the consumption of petrol in trade deliveries.