CUTTING OF PETROL SUPPLIES
DRASTIC STEPS IN AUSTRALIA CHARGE OF LARGE-SCALE HOARDING Sydney, Aug. 4. The cutting down of petrol supplies to the bare bone has practically paralysed the motor industry and delivery services throughout Australia, and repercussions of this are being felt by industry generally. The Commonwealth Government today adopted an extreme course to get complete control of the petrol stocks remaining in the country by issuing an order freezing all supplies held by private persons as from to-night. Everybody other than oil companies and retailers holding stocks in excess of 12 gallons is required to make a return to the Fuel Board within the present month. The Minister of Supply, Senator Mc- ' Leay, emphasised that this action amounted to marshalling of data which i would be available in readily useable form in case of necessity. A report from Brisbane on the subject of petrol hoarding says: “Hidden under a fake haystack in New South Wales is a private petrol hoard of 16,000 gallons in 400-gallon drums. is only one of a series of reserve stocks that have been secreted throughout the Commonwealth since the enforcement of rationing. Conservative official estimates place the total private reserves at 15,000.000 gallons.”—U.P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 76, 5 August 1941, Page 4
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