SCARCITY OF TYRES FOR HOME GUARDSMEN AND OTHERS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 6, Issue 85, 29 June 1943, Page 7

SCARCITY OF TYRES FOR HOME GUARDSMEN AND OTHERS

The question of the supply oi' tyres to country members of the Home Guard was referred to in a letter from the Minister of Supply, Hon. D. G. Sullivan, which was read at the monthly meeting of the Auckland Provincial Executive' .of the New Zealand Farmers. Union on June I<J. The letter stated that a li.st. of those eligible lor tyres had been completed, but it was not possible' to provide for private ears. As ears operated by members of the Home Guard were mainly privately owned, and used, only partially for these duties it was not possible, to give their owners favourable consideration in the matter of tyres.. While the Avork of the Home Guard was appreciated the request could not be granted unless the cars Ave re usedf exclusively for such duties. Mr S. E. Hall (Matatoki) and ALr Heath Mason (Tc Kuiti) spo'ke of the hardships that were being imposed 011 many farmers by the difficult}' in obtaining tyres. The President (Captain H. M. llushworlh) said if particulars, of individual cases Ave re .supplied, to the authorities some satisfaction might be obtained. Statements of a general character Ave re not likely to be of an\- av;iil.