PETROL FOR SOLDIERS
LICENCES ARE OBTAINABLE
MEN OUT ON FINAL LEAVE The Matamata Returned Services' Association received definite advice that soldiers from overseas and those on final 'leave are entitled to four, six or eight gallons of benzine (10 in special circumstances) according to the horsepower of cars to visit friends and relatives where there is no regular means of transport. The regulation covering soldiers on leave has been in force for a long time, but. the one covering men from overseas was amended recently. A licence Avill on!}' be issued in a soldier's home town, but lie need not necessarily be a car-owner himself, as he may get the allowance on a borrowed car. The regulation does not apply to men on ordinary leave.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 99, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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125PETROL FOR SOLDIERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 99, 2 September 1942, Page 5
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