SAVING PETROL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21958, 9 May 1941, Page 4

SAVING PETROL

Zoning Of Trade Deli ver ie (P.A.) CHRISTCHURCH, May 8. “You can take it that the Govern ment’s present policy will be to sta put’ with the present allowance fc private owners for two months a least unless something unforeseen i the international situation interrupt supplies,” said Mr W. R, Care president of the South Island Moto Union, at a meeting of the executiv of the Union to-night. Mr Carey had reported earlic. i committee on the national conferenc of representatives of petrol consumin interests held in Wellington recent! at the request of the Government t consider the petrol cuts. He sal that the reduction of half a coupo monthly which had recently beei made would save another 400,000 gal lons a month. It was proposed furthe to cut down the supply to owner with special licences. Transport ser vices would not be unduly curtailed a the moment. Local bodies would b circularised- with a request for : voluntary reduction in consumption Government departments were to b asked to make cuts also, and a furthe attempt would be made to reduce b; zoning methods of consumption 6 petrol in trade deliveries.