LIGHT BREAD.
TO THE EBITOB OF TUB I'BEB3tI Si*,~ln answer to * A W ,r letter, published in you*' paper* *JVj M» I .beg, *o..T W fjttot-|>aw-f.| w «ffigr Uia highest pripe ruling' for gbreacf^na 1 "* never titie ( mpted to beat a ba&ec dop »° pr * pries. IWβ dealt with bakers 'toty? 1 ff and email calibre, and find, no difference w niorality like their, b 9bort' weight alwuya.'Mbrealing., ia B nd to »»^?^^)^*»SB Tery general)'they aw.xpoet apt- wfth, tJW| exevuree, such as dry-vfeaifee* «au3«tg 0
. ~a eWc ifTht,'or it is a little more baked Casual,> my weights are not correct, &c , t T It *wM be very easy indeed to give the Le* of more than half a dozen bakers who J*° in the habifc of selling light bread in ♦μ-l town if I kit disposed, but as your cor.nnnaent might read his own name in the iTuw be advieable for hi* .take to abS> from doing so; but if he will eend Ilia ? LeTe card to the " Press " officee, addressed Spaterfaroilia'.," and I find he is not one t -the defaulters, and hie bread is of good iSy and fair weight, I think I shall be hie to get bim in any good customers, but I f f r om the tenor of his letter, teeming with ITm'fWV frivoloue excuses for his fraternity, that hi's habits will palate too much of those complained of to induce him to send his card. Infect hie letter ie so replete with nonsense, there is no necessity for my further answering JnyDWt. of it. beyond drawing attention; to the Lithing but insolvent etate of our Ohristchnrch millers and bakers, the latter particularly being Tery numerous and on the increase, indicating that the business as at ijreeeni carried on is an unusually lucrative Le especially when it can support bo many wna'il S-foms, Bills, and Harrys" without capital, referred to in your correspondent's , letter In any case, why should not the baker carry on his business like any other honest j tradesmen, and if he professes to sell a 2lb or 41b loaf, let them be up to weight, irrespective ; of low or high prices, which appear to be entirely regulated by the bakers themselves. Yours obediently, Patbefamilias.
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Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1835, 1 March 1869, Page 2
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373LIGHT BREAD. Press, Volume XIV, Issue 1835, 1 March 1869, Page 2
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