WHAT THE JUICE?

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 196, 7 August 1940, Page 6

WHAT THE JUICE?

We are at war! ancl it/has become the duty of every individual to take notice of those whose cars are apparently outside the restrictions and to ask the question 'where is the petrol coming from?' "Vv'hy should trucks be on the road on Sundays carrying timber, earth and other things for private use? The papers frequently report sentences for motor spirit stealing and inflict salutary fines. Is ntt the motorist who treats with contempt and indifference the request for conservation of motor spirit guilty of theft? I think he is. There is no smartness in bluffing the authorities. Cut it out! and play the game. Yours etc., FAIR PLAY.

- Sir, —I think it is time that a pri-« ' vate observer or two should call at- \ tention to the criminal inconsideration of a number of motorists to the request of our ernment for the conservation motor fuel. It lias become, in the , writer's opinion a matter of grave scandal that certain persons and 4 companies should be in the position t to use motors. Sunday and Saturday without an investigation as to the sources of their supplies of petrol. , Anyone who is interested (and we all ought to be) cannot but wonder t how it is that certain firms and private owners have sufficient-pet-j rol to engage their cars and trucks on Sundays to cart refuse and tim-« ber for their private use, whilst others have barely to take them to and from their work. It f is obvious that a number of motor- | ists are treating with contempt the request of the Government to conserve their fuel and blatantly use the week-end for private carrjang of most unnecessary luads. There ; if! also far too much racing about* » by car loads of pleasure seekers,* (Continued foot previous column)