PETROL RATIONS
LATEST CUT IN AUSTRALIA. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) MELBOURNE, May 7. Private motorinrg will be reduced to 40 miles a week under the new petrol ration scale, details of which are announced by the Minister of Supply. Senator Mcßride, today. The minimum private monthly allowance from June 1 is five gallons for 8 h.p. cars rising to a maximum of II gallons for cars over 30 h.p. This ration is half the amount allowed when rationing was introduced in October. Motorists at present obtaining extra rations under “business and private’’ fuel licences are being cut 20 per cent i and will be required to answer a ques- i tionnaire slating how much is used i respectively for business and pleasure, i
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1941, Page 5
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122PETROL RATIONS Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1941, Page 5
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