PLIGHT DISREGARDED
POSITION OF TRAVELLING MOTORISTS
Travelling motorists, many of whom have felt it their obligation to honour their bookings with hotels and have made the trip to Dunedin to attend the centennial celebrations of Otago by means of motor transport, have expressed to the Daily Times their disappointment at the attitude shown by the proprietors of many roadside service stations towards the travelling motorist.
“It is apparently forgotten by these roadside service station proprietors,” one motorist said, “ that their quota allocations have been materially built up over the years by the support and petrol consumption of the traveller who to-day is looked upon as a complete outsider when he calls for petrol.”
It would appear, he added, that supplies were being conserved ‘ for what the service station proprietors called the “regular” customer, with a complete disregard of those who for various reasons found it necessary to travel outside their own districts.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26703, 24 February 1948, Page 6
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152PLIGHT DISREGARDED Otago Daily Times, Issue 26703, 24 February 1948, Page 6
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