BREAD DELIVERIES

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23537, 15 January 1942, Page 3

BREAD DELIVERIES

Sir.—l have read with interest your correspondent’s letter as appearing in your publication on January 14. 1942, over the non-de-plume of "Stick Together. Boys.” and I consider that explanatidrt of the queries contained therein would perhaps assist in clearing up-any wrong impressions which may prevail. Definitely, the heads of big firms are not “putting it across the small man.” The system of flour quotas, which the bakers of Canterbury are operating, entities' each baker, large or small, a proportion of trade based on previous output taken over many months. As to • the question of delivery by horse vehicle, bakers can undoubtedly deliver by this means, but only wholesale, the whole idea being to save manpower, as well as petrol. The answer to the third query, which raises the point whether the small baker was threatened with stoppage of his flour supplies if he refused to come into the scheme is definitely "No.” Once the wholesale delivery schemed' however, becomes operative, government regulation will preclude retail delivery in defined areas. Finally, I would stress that the Master Bakers’ Association realises that it is of the utmost importance to keep the smaller unit in business, particularly at the present time, when, under war conditions, there may be no larger units in existence if we are subjected to enemy attack.—Yours, etc., GEO. R. BURROWES, Secretary, The Master Bakers’ Assn. January 14, 1942.