EMERGENCY PETROL

New Zealand Herald, Volume 79, Issue 24244, 9 April 1942, Page 8

EMERGENCY PETROL

CONTINUAL SERVIGE NEED A proposed addition to the Oil Fuel Retail Hours Emergency Regulations, 1942, provides for the display of notices by all retail licensees showing the names and addresses of retail licensees to whom application for oil fuel may be made in an emergency. When the draft regulation was before a meeting of the council of the Automobile Association (Auckland), last night, the question was raised whether the display of a notice would indicate that emergency petrol would be avail-, able at any hour on request. This had been promised by the Minister of Labour, the Hon. P. C. Webh, when agreeing to fixed business hours for service stations, stated Mr. H. W. Bullock. , . The president, Mr. F. G. Farrell urged that when the addition was gazetted, a reservation should be made that some stations should be designated as places where emergency supplies were always available. The present hours of closing included a week-end from noon on Saturday to 7.30 a.m. on Monday Licensees were selling so little ' petrol that they could not afford to maintain a continual service everywhere. The draft regulation was approved, j addition that notices be displayed where petrol could be secured in the main towns.