MEW ZEALAND PETROL PRICES

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 220, 14 August 1939, Page 3

MEW ZEALAND PETROL PRICES

AIM. ill 1/1 QI IST’S gCFSTON FN I YF. MX AM MRICF. i'he following q... stion was haudet in che House oi I Jepnsen ta t i ves by Air. A. (!. Hiiftquist'. AI.M. for the Day oi i'lenty, on i 1 ridav last : “To ;:>k'tbe .Minister of Industries and Commerce, Whether lie will immediately set up a Committee to ill vestigate and advise hint on the question of a universal freight-paid' prut for peti< If [Note. —The question is asked with the object of seeming a universal price at the earliest possible moment, and the Ifdlo.vmg present day prices in the May of I’lenty Flectorate will demonstrate the hardship continual!;, being borne by those in country distii- ts—. Second grade; \\ liakatane. Taneaiua. Gpniiki, tdiope Beach. and Awakeri, “s (Did ; Gisborne. T'e Karaka, and Ormond, 2s 7d ; ICdgeetimbe and Waimana. 2s 7A ; Aiarawai, Aletu, Tokomaru Bay. and 'i’olaga May. 2s f.'.l ; Muatoria, Whangara. Waipiro May, and 1 To Muia Springs. 2s I Oil ; Cape .Runaway and Hicks May. 2s Lid; and Tikitiki. Ms. Fitst-gnulo pi trol is Id more, so that I am able to quote the most glaring example ol hardship in New Zealand. First-grade petrel at Tikitiki costs the consumer 3s Id.J