PETROLEUM SPIRITS FREIGHT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 190, 10 February 1914, Page 2

PETROLEUM SPIRITS FREIGHT.

I i'KTmux FOR REDUOTiOX. I -V proposal has recently emanated Irani tlio Wellington l.ranvh of life VaIcuum Oil Company that a petition should be presented to tlio \cv Zealand Railways Department and to (lie associated shipping companies of New /calami, asking for a reduction „f th» lieight charges on petroleum spirts, I ihe company lias written to the Taranaki County Council and to prominent men m the oil industry in .Ww P]y mouth asking for their 'cooncration in the matter. The company points out that the «x>sti„g rates were iixed when the consumption of petroleum spirits was comparatively small, whereas now tliu spirits arc used in numerous ways such as for running uiilkiiur ,„„] oI j UM . farm machinery, and trade plants It forwards two copies of the petition, o„e to be sent to the liaihvav Department mid one to the associated slnppiu- „„,( asks for the signatures of farmers and Other industrial users as well is of those prominent in the oil industry iim petition points out that the pre sent excessive rate of freights tc„,l< to retard the progress of the. oil im|Ustry by restricting the use of petroleum , 'Pints, t asks that the charge* should ' be placed em the same scale as those tor kerosene and lubricating oils.