PETROL FOR LEAVE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 24773, 25 November 1941, Page 6

PETROL FOR LEAVE

SOLDIERS' DIFFICULTIES RENEWED TtANNED Although a recent move by the Dunedin R.SA.. to obtain extra petrol rations for soldiers on final leave did not .succeed, a suggestion from thtk Automobile Association (Otago) that an appeal should be made through the New Zealand Returned Services' Association was adopted at a meeting_of the Dunedin Association last night. The appeal will be based on the made to a soldier on leave in Britain, where provision is made for a supply sufficient for 300 miles' travel. Reference was again made to the inability of almost soldier making application in Dunedin to obtain a supply of petrol "for his ownneedi While on leaver-Yet in Wellingtoniand Christchurch, it was stated, the same difficulty ,was not "The only explanation seems to be that in the north the oil fuel controllers are more sympathetic to the soldiers' cases," said the president, Mr W. E. Earnshaw. ' :' : The secretary, Mr O. L. Ferens, said the reasons accepted for petrol allowances were confined to the sickness of relatives and extreme urgency. There was only, one recent application .which had been successful, and the details behind it were of great interest. The request, which was at first rejected, was later granted.