PETROL SUPPLIES.

Taranaki Daily News, 1 July 1920, Page 9

PETROL SUPPLIES.

BRIGHTER PROSPECTS. CONSIGNMENTS ARRIVING. Prom inquiries made it would seem as if the message from Christchurch re a threatened shortage of petrol is not based on sound information (says the Auckland Star). It is admitted that the Vacuum Oil Company at the present time is out of supplies, bnt as against this there is a lot to be said why customers need not fear for the future. The suggestion is that some people , are hoarding supplies. Despite the fact r that the past month or two is looked upon as being the quietest time of the year so far as sales of petrol are i. concerned, the information was glean- . Ed recently that during the past six weeks at least two or three times as much petrol was disposed of to consumers as is the case under normal conditions. It is therefore obvious—at least it should be so—that the demand in the near future will be quite small, and with the Donald McKay arriving approximately at the end of the month with about ten to twenty thousand cases of benzine and about ten thousand cases of kerosene for this • port, and consignments for other ports, a by no means acute position should prevail. These. quantities should easily keep the Dominion in supply until the arrival of the Wcstmahawa, about the first week in nest month. The arrival of these two vessels, our informant said, will definitely end the kerosene shortage. From thence onwards shipments of petrol will come to hand regularly.