VITAL FACTOR IN WAR
ALLIES’ SHARE OF PETROI, POSITION IN DOMINION “It is obvious that petrol is one of the vital factors in war to-day,” stated Mr. 11. J. Knight, secretary of the New Zealand Road' Transport Alliance, when speaking at a meeting of carriers in Hamilton. He explained that it had been said by an eminent scientist that 75 per cent ef the oil supplies in the world were in the hands of Britain and her Allies, while Germany could only call on 25 per cent. Petrol, the scientist had added, would win the war for the Allies. Mr. Knight said tile present state of the petrol restrictions in New Zealand could be regarded as fairly permanent provided reasonable economy was shown. He considered that if the supplies were cut down, the transport industry, which was performing a public service, would be the last to suffer.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GISH19390927.2.58.7
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
147VITAL FACTOR IN WAR Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20053, 27 September 1939, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in