RECENT CUT IN PETROL
POSITION OF STATE DEPARTMENTS
REQUEST TO MINISTER
(Special) DUNEDIN, October 13. A request that the South Island Motor Union should ask the Minister of Supply, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, to make a definite statement that all Government departments were subject to the recent reduction in petrol allocations is to go forward as the outcome of a decision reached at the monthly meeting of the Automobile Association (Otago).
The discussion which resulted in this decision arose from correspondence between the union and the Minister on the subject of petrol allocations. The letter to the Minister from the South Island and North Island Motor Unions asked that the restrictions imposed on private motorists should be relaxed to grant from October 1 two coupons each month above the rate of allocation for August and September. The Minister’s reply stated that the representations had been given full consideration. The Government would be happy if the circumstances warranted giving effect to them, but the Cabinet had come to the conclusion that relaxation from the present coupon allowance was not justified at present. The letter stated further that Government departments, including tire Army, had been required to bear the recent cut. If members of the union were in possession of the full facts they would agree with the action taken by the Government.
Mr A. E. Bingham: The same parallel services are going on here still. The City Corporation has been running bases out to the races.
The chairman, Mr P. W. Breen: And with a good railway service. It was suggested by Mr G. W. Ferens that the Minister should be asked for a specific statement that Government departments had been subject to the same cut as everyone else. The chairman: He has made that statement in this letter.
Mr Ferens: If that is so, how is it that the same services are still being run? Does anyone know of any Government service in Otago that has been discontinued or curtailed? It is obvious that some curtailment would be an inevitable result of a cut in the petrol allowance.
On the motion of Mr Ferens it was decided to make the request to the Minister through the union.
RECENT CUT IN PETROL
Southland Times, Issue 24565, 14 October 1941, Page 6
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