PETROL SHORTAGE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1835, 4 June 1918, Page 3

PETROL SHORTAGE.

Searching' enquiries are now made of the motor trade by a large firm of petrol importers as to what supplies of the spirit required are to be used for. Supplies will be furnished to actual users, plus what is required for current trade, though in limited quantities. The new system of distribution is in accordance with the desire of the Board of Trade to conserve supplies. All orders will, however, be invoked to distributors, through whom the quantities, of petrol required by actual users will pass, but they are asked to see that as far as possible retail purchasers exercise economy. The following list of petrol users is attached to the instructions, the classification being that of the National Efficiency Board Schedule A Alost essential: Agriculturists, farmers, dairymen, coal-mining, creameries, ciieese factories, dairy factories, doctors, electric hydro power stations, engineering (marine), fishermen (deep sea), flour mills, freezing works, iron rolling mills, railways, shipping, ship repairs, threshing mills. Schedule E Essential: Agricultural implements, analytical chemistry, bakeries, butchering, chaff-gutting, fcllmongering, fruit-growing, gardening (commercial), lightering, mail contractors, milk distribution, newspaper distribution, poultryfarming, seed dressing, shearing machines, ship-building, tanning, well-boring, woollen mills, woolscouring. Schedule C—Partially essential: Commercial carriers, fiaxmilling, printing, tramways, sawmilling, storekeepers, garages, taxi proprietors, quarrying, dyeing and cleaning, laundries.