PETROL FOR RACES

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 64, Issue 4527, 23 January 1942, Page 5

PETROL FOR RACES

EXPLANATIONS WANTED “WASTED ON PLEASURE” INDIGNANT MINISTER Motor-cars from a distance were observed by the authorities to be proceeding toward the race meeting at Trentham last Saturday, and it is officially announced that inquiries are now being made of the owners of these vehicles about the source of their petrol supply, with a view to appropriate action. Another check is to be made of cars travelling from a distance on the occasion of the second day’s racing. The Minister of Supply, the Hon. ,D. G. Sullivan, stated at Wellington ist night, that on January 17, between 10 a.m. and noon, a number of cars were noted on the approaches to Wellington and travelling in the direction of the Trentham race meeting. A number of these cars came from as far north as Dannevirke and Wanganui and would require from 10 to 12 gallons for the return trip. “It is to be regretted that, in spite of the appeals that have been made to conserve petrol for essential purposes, the owners of these vehicles have seen fit to waste oil fuel on pleasure running,” said the Minister. “Inquiries are now being made from the owners of these vehicles as to the source from which they obtained their petrol and appropriate action will be taken. “In connection with the second day of the meeting at Trentham to-mor-row it is hoped that persons travelling from a distance will make use of the railway or other public facilities for travel and will not contemplate further waste of precious oil fuel.

Arrangements are being made for a check on the registered numbers of cars travelling from a distance 'on that day.”