BOTTLED PETROL

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24449, 7 November 1940, Page 10

BOTTLED PETROL

PURCHASES FOR USE IN SMALL CARS Motorists are resorting to the purchase of petrol in bottles from grocers for use in cars, it was stated at a meeting of the executive of the Antimobile Association (Wellington). The chairman. Mr E. A. Batt, said he had been told by a grocer that people with small cars had been buying at Is 3d a bottle petrol bottled for domestic use. They would be paying 5s a gallon. Mr E. Palliser; You will have the Oil Fuel Controller after you if you give publicity to that, The chairman said he did not believe there was harm in the practice receiving publicity. “ It just shows how hard driven they are. to pay Is 3d a quart,” he said. Four bottles, however, would take a small car 40 miles. Mr H. W. Shortt: It is better to pay that than be towed home, isn’t it? Mr Pallister remarked that it was a pretty high price, because most bottles of the kind held only three gills. The secretary. Mr W. A. Sutherland, said he believed the price would be 7s a gallon.