CASE OILS.
GOVERNMENT ARRANGE FOR SHIP-
MENTS.
WELLINGTON. January 7. In September last it was found desirable to take a census of the stocks of kerosene, benzine, petrol, and other case oils available for consumption in the dominion. The information which was collected by the Government Statistician, with the assistance of the Post and Telegraph Department, indicated that there was a possibility of an acute shortage of such oils. The Prime Minister has,' therefore, placed himself in communication by telegraph with the Imperial authorities, through the High Commissioner in London, and as an outcome arrangements are to be completed for two steamers to lift a supply from the United States, estimated at from sixty to seventy thousand cases. A further fifty thousand cases are available at a United States port for exportation to New Zealand. It is hoped that the necessary arrangements to providy shipping, space for the latter will be completed at an early date. Through the action taken by the New Zealand Government a special rate of freight has been fixed, on the understanding that the consumers of the oil shall receive all the benefits arising therefrom.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3330, 9 January 1918, Page 39
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189CASE OILS. Otago Witness, Issue 3330, 9 January 1918, Page 39
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