PETROL IMPORTS.
MORE MONEY, LESS VOLUME. CHANGE IN SOURCE OF SUPPLY. WELLINGTON", this day. Onp of the most significant features of petrol importations this year is the j increased expenditure, in the first six months, despite the fact that the quantity imported, compared with the first six months of 1030, is down to the extent of 14,000.000 gallons. Imports for the first six months of 1940 totalled 41,7.M.8">6 fralloni=, valued at £1.118,7">3. The previous year's figures for the first six months were: — Imported, 53.790,210 jrallons; value, | .C 1,027,009. I Important changes have taken place ! in sources of supply, compared with the pre-war year ot 19:>8, when the value of petrol imported from the United States was £527,777. In the last six months | New Zealand ha*; spent only £478 on I United States petrol. It is making ' greater use of the Netherlands East Indies, while Bahrein Islands sent more in the last six months than during the | whole of 1935. I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 5
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160PETROL IMPORTS. Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 225, 21 September 1940, Page 5
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