NO “LASHING OUT” OF PETROL
Grants To Bowling Clubs (P.A.) WELLINGTON, December 17. “I don’t want it assumed that there is going to be a lashing out of petrol, because that is not the case,” said the Oil Fuel Controller, Mr G. L. Laurenson, commenting on a report from I Hamilton that on certain conditions petrol would be made available to members of country bowling clubs wishing ’to visit neighbouring centres. The grants were not confined to Waikato or to bowling clubs, he said, but would be available in any part of New Zealand and to any sports bodies provided the conditions were complied with. Those conditions, however, were stringent. Tire purpose of the issue was merely to enable sports to keep going where their continued existence was threatened. Local controllers were instructed to deal conservatively with the matter, and in fact very little petrol was actually being issued. Each case would be dealt with on its merits. Authority for reasonable amounts might be given only if there were no alternative transport of any sort available. Petrol would have to be issued in some form of group travel, not by individuals alone, and only short journeys would be permitted. Mr Laurenson added that similar arrangements had been made for winter sports bodies earlier in the year.
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Southland Times, Issue 25240, 18 December 1943, Page 5
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