SALE OF PETROL

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 75, Issue 6443, 7 November 1947, Page 5

SALE OF PETROL

WEEK-END RESTRICTIONS REGULATIONS GAZETTED EAST NIGHT The sale of motor spirits during week-ends is in future to be more rigorously controlled, according to the Motor Spirits Week-end Sales Restriction Notice published in last night’s Gazette. Under the regulations, no petrol station is allowed to sell petrol for motor vehicles (this does not include launches) on Saturdays or Sundays except to enable a driver to make or continue a journey over the week-end in which he has travelled already not less than 100 miles, or carry out a journey as a matter of unexpected urgency on account of death, illness or business, of which particulars shall be given, or for the use under authority of a license to ply for hire, such as taxis, etc.

The reasons given by the drivers of motor vehicles to service station attendants for the supply of petrol are to be entered in the register, along with the car number, and these have to be certified as correct by the driver and service station attendants, who will add their signatures to the register. Service station attendants are responsible with the driver for the information supplied as far as station attendants can verify the information by an inspection of the vehicles concerned. The restrictions under the new regulations are in addition to any thing governing week-end travel, which is included in the present weekend restrictions.

Last night’s Gazette notice provides that from to-day the sale or disposal of motor spirits from storage tanks, except in accordance with the terms of permit of sale or disposition granted by the controller, is prohibited. The regulation permits the sale by retailers of motor spirits in containers not exceeding one quart in capacity for use otherwise than as fuel in a motor vehicle.