USE OF OIL FUEL

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 189, 13 August 1941, Page 4

USE OF OIL FUEL

WAITOTARA COUNTY’S POSITION PETROL RATION BELOW REQUIREMENTS. •We have been operating on minimum requirements all ® when application was made to the district controller for the petrol licence the minimum average sumption was taken as a ba-., - the chairman of the Waitolara County Council, Mr. W. Morrison at yesterday's meeting of the council ‘ A letter received from the Dominion Oil Fuel Controller, Mi. U * Laurenson, stated that tor ‘ which it was inadvisable to stale it was necessary for all local bodies reduce petrol consumption. ■•Further reduction will mean that one of our lorries will have to be laid un '’ Mr. Morrison continued. He sa. that when the assistant-clerk, -• Broadhead, had stated the . - requirements would be the ■ last year, an official had asked why the maximum requirements had not t>een used as a basis in making ap plications previously. „ "Now we have oeen reduced •• further 100 gallons, leaving us om SBU gallons to work on. One ol oui lorries will have to be laid up un 1 our licence is revised, Mr. Morrison

Cr L T. Jones said the county's onlv chance of keeping the roads in order was to do the worx with its own lorries, as nobody would con tract for the work these dajS. , annot do with one lorry less on the joo. " he said, “and if we have any emergency work to do as a ic * floJd damage we will be in a serious P °The n chairman and the assistantclerk (Mr. W. Broadhead > were empowered to see the district oil fue controller and make representations for a renewal of the petrol licence at the previous quantity-