The Army’s Petrol

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 20, 19 October 1943, Page 4

The Army’s Petrol

Sir, —Regarding the agitation developing for a more liberal allowance of petrol to private motorists, at least temporarily, it might be possible to meet this if more control was exercised, as it should be, over the running of. military vehicles, particularly at night time and palpably on personal business. It is surprising the large numbers of not only military cars, but big lorries, one sees parked regularly at night outside private residences, and I can vouch for the fact that in an isolated street in Karori late last Tuesday night there was a military car parked with a man and woman in it. This sort of thing should be capable of being prevented if the military authorities exercised rigid control over the movements of vehicles in their charge, and someone was called to account for their absence from camps at night. This id an abuse that has to bo met out of the public subscriptions to War Loans, and is one the public are rightly entitled to demand should be stopped.—l am, etc., MOTORIST. Wellington, October 16.