PETROL INQUIRY
MIXING ADMITTED. SYDNEY, Thursday. At the petrol enquiry, George Ferguson, terminal manager for the Texas Company, admitted that a shipment of poAver kerosene in the steamer South Africa Avas blended in the company's tanks for the purpose of avoiding payment of Customs duty, and to increase supplies to meet an order. Robert Beaton, assistant in the operating division, said that lie accepted full responsibility for alloiving the blending in the tank. He had never discussed the matter AA r ith Beverley. He did not regard it as fraud, but as a technical irregularity. The hearing was adjourned. ' PRICE IN MELBOURNE. AIELBOURNE, Thursday. The major oil companies are making no increase in price this week, though La rise of a penny a gallon lias been rumoured.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 2 March 1934, Page 5
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