PETROL AFTER HOURS

Chronicle (Levin), 15 August 1946, Page 3

PETROL AFTER HOURS

-Press Associcition

Bij Telegraph-

X !•; \V 1'LYMOlTlI, Ang. 14. Tlie iiiuuml coii 1 iM'tMHM' dI tlie Xort !i Islaml Motor IJnioii at Xen I'lymoutli l omornnv will eoushter a reronimemla tiou t'l'oni t tio exeriilive eoiuieil lliat a stroiisr (lologntion meei ihe 3linister of Lubour, Hoti. J. OToieii. to statc t tio motorists ' ease rou:mliiig liours for salo of petrol, and to seek a rrvornl ioii of exist ing \v;ir regulat ioiis goveruing the sale and list ribiihon. Tlio suggoslion tliat a ilelegalinii wail on tlic* l\i i nistor was niadc 1>y Mr. '. V. Freeilman (llawke s Bay i at a nieetiivg ol'llie eoiuieil today. lt was supported I j \* _m r. W. lliitidiison t (Auckland ) aho said ihe Pa'mn should "go riglil

out" for tlic revueation of wartime rogulatious. ''.1 ain not happy about our oHcr to pay au inereasod piave poi »allon for after liours trading as an alteruative to signiiig the register,'' he said. Tlie sub.jeet was introdueed when a letter was received from the Soulli Island Motor rnion advising tliat it pnTerred Ihe signing of an eniergeney register if uecessary for petrol sup plied oiitsido ordinary liours of trading, to the paynient of an opening fee or liigher priee for petrol. A letter from the Minister of Supply. IIoii. h. (I. Snllivan, expressed the hope that all rest rietioas on the sale and dis1 riliution of petrol would he lifted in the near future but he added that tliis depended on e.ertain f'actors beyond the (ioveriuiient 's eontrol,