PETROL & RUBBER
SERIOUSNESS OF SHORTAGE EMPHASISED BY CANADIAN MINISTER. SPEED LIMIT FOR MOTORS. (By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) (Received This Day, 1.5 p.m.) OTTAWA, March 24. A speed limit of forty miles an hour will be introduced in Canada in an effort to conserve petrol and rubber. Petrol rationing starts on April 1. Announcing these measures, the Munitions Minister, Mr C. D. Howe, declared that the United Nations are likely to lose the war unless they obtain adequate oil and rubber supplies, since they require seven times the amount of rubber available from piesent sources of supply. “The rubber situation is desperate,” he said. It is just about the toughest problem we have ever had to face.” In connection with the petrol situation, Mr Howe cited the shortage of tankers, as well as of rail and road tank cars.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1942, Page 4
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138PETROL & RUBBER Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1942, Page 4
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