DISTRIBUTION OF PETROL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 6 August 1945, Page 3

DISTRIBUTION OF PETROL

fTo the Editprl Sir, —We have operating in. Motueka an Oil Fuel Committee which I understand consists mostly of farmers and our worthy Mayor I presume. Living in the country I have seen some instances where people have tried to harvest their crops but could not get the necessary amount of fuel to do so. Yet one sees the next door neighbour receive twice as much for a smaller crop. I have noticed when in Motueka on Saturday morning and Sunday people who are employed outside Motueka but their home is there and they can get benzine to return home every week-end and also use their car •or truck to travel the countryside which I do not think is just. I may also state that there are quite a number of returned soldiers yp farms and they have got that way when they go for benzine one would think they were asking to be given the Bank of New Zealand. lam reminded of the old saying that the returned soldier is forgotten practically before the war is finished I think that the returned digger in some places is having a raw deal and it is up to every Returned Servicemen’s Association in New Zealand to get down to tin tacks immediately. Also I may state that one sees pacifists’ cars running around the road and pacifists’ supporters who seem to have all the benzine they require. Is this justice to the returned digger?—l am, etc. , DIGGER. Pangatotara, 31st July.