No Likelihood Of More Petrol Allowance
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Commenting today on the comments of the North Island Motor Union on the petrol situation, the Minister for Supply (Hon. D. G. Sullivan) said that when the supply position and general war situation made it possible, the Government would .be only too happy to make more petrol available. The Minister gave details of the comments on rationing in Australia compared with New Zealand made by the Chairman of the Oil Control Board of Victoria (Mr. A. J. Fraser), who said that private motorists in Australia did not get any more petrol than private motorists in New Zealand. Mi’. Sullivan announced that the ration for the month of March would be coupon nine at half its face value, and said: “We have been advised by the appropriate overseas authorities that future petrol supplies are definitely uncertain and, with the amount of petrol now in the country, it would be madness to gamble on the future and use up what we have at an increased rate.”
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Northern Advocate, 26 February 1944, Page 5
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