PETROL POOL
PLANNED IN AUSTRALIA PRELIMINARY TO RATIONING. STATEMENT BY MINISTER OF SUPPLY. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. As a preliminary to the introduction of petrol rationing, the Minister of Supply (Mr Stewart) announced that a plan had been approved by the Government for pooling all petrol products in Australia. All storage and distribution facilities for petroleum products would be pooled by agreement with by bulk suppliers would cease when the oil companies. Individual trading the scheme became operative, after which all sales would be made by the pool under a common pool brand. TWENTY PER CENT CUT COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS HIT. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. Commercial travellers appear to be the hardest hit in a Dominion-wide effort by the Government to conserve petrol stocks by enforcing a 20 per cent reduction in licences. The Christchurch oil fuel controller said today that the maximuin. allowance for commercial travellers would be 45 gallons per month for heavy cars and about 25 gallons for light cars, irrespective of previous issues. In some cases a reduction had been made from 120 gallons and only in exceptional circumstances would it be reviewed. All other travellers, such as salesmen and insurance agents had been reduced to a maximum of thirty gallons.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1940, Page 6
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213PETROL POOL Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1940, Page 6
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