SAVING PETROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 17 February 1942, Page 3

SAVING PETROL

Writing again from Foxhill, the corlespondent “Petrol Economy” expresses dissatisfaction with the replies to the points he raised about use of lorries in preference to the railways. He quotes a ease of a ge transport lorry distributing coke 1o hop kilns about Belgrove, and adds, “This coke could have been railed from Glenhope to B( ’grove, and, as all hop-growers in Belgrove have drays, they would have been only too pleased to have taken delivery of the coke, more especially if it would have entitled them to a grant ci a gallon a month of petrol.” He also argues that the cartage of timber from ! near Belgrove t a Nelson box-factory j would be quicker by rail than by road because of the greater carrying capacity of railway trucks, provided they were loaded daily at Belgrove. He has often been told, he adds, that, in other parts of New Zealand, transport companies are not allowed to run over 30 miles alongside a railway in Nelson, they aie still running roughly 60 miles alongside the rail, and yet motorists have still to keep their cars in the shed