OVER 6D DIFFERENCE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20075, 23 October 1939, Page 12

OVER 6D DIFFERENCE

COAST AND AUCKLAND COST OF MOTOR SPIRIT (Special to the IlrrnM.) ' TE PUIA, this clay. A reduction, in. the cost of petrol on the Coast ti impossible, according to a communication received by the Waiapu County Council from the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan, but the council has decided to ask for an'explanation of the high cost of transport from Auckland to Tokomaru Bay, estimated at more than 6d a gallon. The Minister advised that ijfter receiving a deputation from the council in July, with the object of seeking a reduction in the price of petrol at Tokomaru Bay. an investigation had been carried out on the matter by his department The Minister staled that the greater bulk of petrol consurnedin Tokomaru Bav was shipped from Auckland, and only very occasionally when 'there was a shortage was any petrol transported overland from Gisborne, and even then only in small quantities. As a result of the investigation, figures had been obtained which clearly indicated that it was impossible to reduce the price of petrol in l lt is area. The figures showed that the overage cost of making deliveries of motor spirit from Auckland depots to ‘he depots in Tokomaru Bay worked -•it at (i.32d per gallon, whereas the difference in the price of petrol per cplion in these two places was only (Id. . . The council was of the opinion that >d should cover the cost of transport, and it was decided to ask the Mims•n- io explain ho-v his estimate o! 6.32 d was arrived at.