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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 267, 10 November 1928, Page 4

| Pastries in profusion, dainty enough to ; please the most fastidious gourmet, on view at the Confectioners, Bakers, tugd Allied Traders' annual exhibition, which opened at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Islington, pointed to their growing popularity. "In the last twenty years there has been an enormous advance in the quality and variety of confectionery." an exhibition official told a reporter. "The variety of fancy cakes and the improved financial position of the working classes account for the decreased consumption of bread. It is certainly true that people do not now live by bread alone." "Since the war men have shown an increasing fondness for chocolates and sweets," said an exhibitor. "Girls, who have to find money for silk stockings and cigarettes, are spending far less than they used to do on chocolates, • but, there has been no consequent decrease in sales, as men are now regular customers. Chocolates have never been more popular than they are at present." There are seventy-one classes in the bread section, the entries totalling about 1000 more than at last year's exhibition, and there is keen competition for a 100-gtiinea silver challenge cup • segawled asthabloatihiud. qf. ths tr.ad.<u '