PETROL SUPPLIES
1 COMPLAINT PROM CHRISTCHURCH. By Tciegraph-Prcss Association. Uiristchurch, May 1 : A deputation of taxi-drivers and drivers waited upon Dr. Thac cer MJVg * afternoon, and .-omplained that their supplies of petrol had been stopped. Di. Thaeker bent the Mowing telegram to tho Minister, of Munitions and Supplies. "TwWnew here have had their petrol stopped. It is snid to be owing to Governmcnt contracts. Please advise me urgentIv as to <ho true position. . . Tho Board of Trade is inquiring; into the distribution <f petrol, but its imestinations aro not confined to Christ church, and it fe obtaining evidence. oa the' subject from other centres by teleS The Hon. A. M. Myers sent the followin« reply to Dr. Thacker's telegram: '■Bo pctrVl supplies, I am not aware of Government contracts for the supply of raotor" spirits in Canterbury beinK extensive enough to restrict ether actytica. I would therefore appreciate fuither ■ information, which probably you might obtaia froir tho owl representatives of the Vacuum Oil Company and Patersou's."
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 4
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166PETROL SUPPLIES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 191, 2 May 1918, Page 4
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