PETROL FAMINE
CARS HELD UP IN VANCOUVER. COMPANIES REFUSE TO SELL AT FIXED PRICE. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. VANCOUVER. April 29. Hundreds of automobiles were stalled throughout the city on the fourth day of a gasoline famine. The _ oil companies are refusing to sell at prices the Government set below the previous scale, although the Court validated the price-fixing. The police have added confusion by threatening to fine over-time porkers.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 April 1940, Page 5
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