EFFECTS BEING FELT

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20052, 26 September 1939, Page 2

EFFECTS BEING FELT

BULK PETROL SALES REDUCTION OF BUSINESS “CASH ON DELIVERY” Despite the issue of 10 gallons of petrol per month, the effects of the petrol restrictions are being felt in Gisborne and petrol resellers are experiencing a falling-off .in business. In line with other centres, the major oil companies are asking payment for petrol on a more or less cash-on-delivery basis and, as a result some reseller? "are making.mil petrol sales on a strictly cash basis. Under the former arrangement, agents sold resellers their petrol supplies on the basis of payment within an approximate average time of 20 clays from the date of supply. Now, however, supplies drawn this week will be due for payment next week. This request by the oil companies is an indication of the difficulty under which the whole motor industry, especially the retail section, is carrying on under the regulations enforced by the Oil Fuel Regulations. 1 Sports Fixtures Affected

Attendances at sporting fixtures in Gisborne have suffered, but not to the extent that the sporting bodies in the larger centres have been hit. In Auckland it is reported that attendances of members at the various golf clubs have dropped and the parking areas usually crammed have borne a comparatively deserted appearance.

It is not -•mown-how the restrictions will affect the local “mosquito fleet" of power launches. There were indications that the coming summer would have been a bumper one for power-boat owners, but the petrol restrictions may have the effect of checking the activities of these craft to some extent. In the cities the power-boat owners have been advised that their craft are likely to be called upon for defence purposes. Several, in fact, have been painted the customary grey colour for this purpose. With their week-end motoring somewhat restricted, motorists, in some cases, are filling in their spare time by working in their gardens and are finding that the little time they were able to devote to horiculture while indulging in motoring weekends was not sufficient to keep the work in the garden from catching up on them.