Wheat In Fields, No Motor Transport’
DUNEDIN, Wed. (Sp.).—ln his district between 4000 and 5000 bags of wheat were lying out in the paddocks because transport operators had no petrol with which to take the grain away, said Mr C. E. Forsyth (Kelso) at a meeting of the Otago sub-execu-tive of Federated Farmers yesterday.
The meeting decided to press for the control of petrol rationing to be decentralised and placed in the hands of a competent district committee similar to those which operated during the war.
It was also decided that the chairman of the National Aid for Britain Council (Mr F. P. Walsh) be informed immediately that Otago Province is experiencing difficulty with petrol supplies for primary production, those particularly affected being transport operators. „ Mr J. S. Mosley (Stirling) said that there must b’e hundreds of thousands of applications for extra petrol going to Wellington for consideration by officials who knew nothing of the circumstances of the applicants.
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Northern Advocate, 17 March 1948, Page 3
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