OIL STORAGE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1938, Page 6

OIL STORAGE

DEFENCE LEAGUE PROTEST AT NEW PLYMOUTH. AGAINST PLACING TANKS ABOVE GROUND. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) NEW PLYMOUTH, October 14. Protests against the erection of bulk oil storage tanks above ground at the port of New Plymouth are supported by the New Plymouth branch of the New Zealand Defence League. There- is a movement to ask the Government to pay the extra cost of placing the tanks underground. These representations, which are being made by New Plymouth, Wellington and other interests, it is understood, include an effort to enlist State help to place tanks underground at Napier, where the Vacuum Oil Company is erecting bulk storage. The text of the Defence League resolution at New Plymouth is: That this meeting is of opinion that, in the public interest and for defence purposes, all new storage tanks for benzine should be placed underground, and that, if necessary, the Defence Department should bear portion of the extra cost involved; and this meeting supports the recent protest of the waterside workers against the proposed erection above the ground of the storage tanks at Moturoa. The meeting is also of the opinion that the Government's attention should be drawn to the vital necessity from having to maintain throughout the Dominion adequate supplies of benzine for use in case of emergency.