Tyre Shortage
In his opening remarks at a special meeting of the No. 2 Licensing Authority at Wellington yesterday to consider the curtailment of road transport services, Mr J. T. Skoglund, the authority, suggested that valuable means of saving tyres would perhaps be the retention of the most efficient drivers in civil employment. In his opinion no matter what was done in the rationing of tyres and rationalization of the services, the fact would remain that an inefficient driver would do as much damage as an efficient one covering three times the distance. Representatives of the Transport Department placed before operators confidential facts and figures of the tyre (position, and said that matters of personal convenience, and even of personal equity, would have to be surrendered to meet the crisis of the tyre position. —P.A. j
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Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 4
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136Tyre Shortage Southland Times, Issue 24827, 20 August 1942, Page 4
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