PETROE SUPPLIES
NEW PLAN ADOPTED IN AUSTRALIA INDIVIDUALS AND FIRMS TO IMPORT & STORE. ANNOUNCEMENT BY FEDERAL PREMIER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ! SYDNEY, July 15. The severity of petrol rationing in this country coupled with the growing agitation by users for some measure of relief resulted in the Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, tonight announcing that the Government had completely reviewed the principles relating to the importation,...storage and distribution of petrol and had adopted a new plan the main features of which were: (1) Persons and firms would be licensed to import and store petrol and would thus be placed in the same position as distributors already licensed: (2) quotas for imports would be allotted among companies to provide for the maintenance of stocks required for Governmental and civilian purposes; (3) in the event of any company failing to import its quota the Minister of Supply would have the right to divide the deficiency among other companies and also permit companies to import in excess of their quotas so long as the stocks in hand were less than the amount stipulated by the Government; (4) should the Minister be not satisfied that the company was importing at a reasonable cost he was empowered to cancel the company’s licence and allot its quota among other companies; (5) importing companies would be required to make a monthly return of the quantities imported and also the landed costs. Mr Menzies pointed out that the new powers afforded an clastic system of control under Government direction under which every facility available for increasing supplies would be used. Further, when stocks of petrol were built to the level desired it would review rationing in the light of the international system then prevailing and the dollar exchange position. Mr Menzies confessed that he was disturbed when he discovered quite recently the extent to which stocks of petrol had been depleted in this country by comparison with what they were last January.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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322PETROE SUPPLIES Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1941, Page 5
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