BENZINE SUPPLIES.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16037, 30 January 1920, Page 7

BENZINE SUPPLIES.

SITUATION SATISFACTORY,

ADDITIONAL FUEL IN SIGHT.

The anxiety occasioned by the shortage in benzine supplies, and the distribution of the same appears (says the Auckland Star) to have- been appeased, and the latest report from the Board of Trade, who are controlling the whole of the allocation, states that a solution has been found suitable to all the parties concerned. ! The wholesale manner in which the shipments brought by the Wairuna and Iceland were being dispensed of led up to the supplies to motor garages and taxi proprietors being temporarily suspended. However, an agreement has been come to whereby the latter are dispensing just what is required by the trade without giving anybody a chance of accumulating, a factor which played an important part in the crisis just passed. An arrangement was made enabling the diversion of 5000 additional cases from the Iceland’s shipment, which is at present being discharged here. As far as the country is concerned, adequate supplies have been allotted among the various industries, and the rural fraternity are better off now than they have been for some' months.

Regarding the future supplementary shipments are in sight, and the first addition to the stocks is expected in the first week in February, while about the middle of the month a further shipment is due. The exercising of slight economy on the part of consumers will tide the situation over until this augmentation of the stocks, though the pleasure car cannot anticipate any consideration in the distribution of the fuel.