ESSENTIAL RESERVES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 37, 8 April 1942, Page 5

ESSENTIAL RESERVES

CITIZEN CO-OPERATION NEEDED The Oil Fuel Controller in Wellington has made an urgent appeal for the immeddiate collection and return to depots of all available petrol drums. Reserve stocks and specialised stocks of oil fuel are being built up as a part of the democracies' war effort in the Pacific, and the provision of all possible additional storage for such stocks is now necessary. One method, and an important one, is the use of drums, which enables a judicious distribution of reserve supplies. It is obviously desirable that there should lie distribution and that large quantities not lie accumulated at any one place. It is felt that there are a sufficient number of petrol drums in the country, and if thc3' are made available the immediate needs can be met. People who have empty drums arc requested to return them at once, and the Government is asking that a special effort be made to gather together every available drum. The New Zealand Road Transport Alliance, which represents the carrying industry throughout the Dominion, has acceded to the Government's request to provide service for the collection of empty petrol drums.

fhircl class. That price covers everything—bed, meals, trips by car and boat, and a look at the Mediterranean. Boa*! avc will be like first class tourists instead of third class. "A Cllark Gable in no Time" "I have been in the movies twice lately, once for a British concern, the other for a New Zealand 'Public Relations' outfit. They will be shown in New Zealand very soon. A man will be a Clark Gable in no time if he carries on like that too much! I might become famous overnight—that would knock you. wouldn't it? "We were filmed going through « bayonet assault course. We didn't! see either .film ourselves. "Next parcel I send home I'll send' some of our issue of cigarettes in. it, just to let you see what sort of cigarettes we have to put up with. They taste like nothing oin earth, but we get them 'buckshee,' so I don't suppose we should growl about them. "English tobacco here is about 20 ackers a two-ounce tin. We get New Zealand tobacco at the New Zealand Club in Cairo for nine ackers —just about Avhat you pay for it over there. "J have had scA'eral parcels from New Zealand. . . You can guarantee the cakes didn't last long. As a: matter of fact, four of us just about polished off one for supper the night I got it. We never see cake .over here. I have had several cans, of oysters—delicious! They got a proper hiding!"