PRICE OF BREAD
Sir,—Your correspondent “Consumer” is correct concerning the price of bread. Whatever the price was over the counter or delivered before September 3, it was intended to be reduced in price by Id for a 21b loaf and 2d for a 41b loaf on that date, as stated by the Prime Minister. Delivery is not in the argument. Petrol is reduced 2d a gallon. Any baker reducing the price of bread by only half the amount stated by the Prime Minister is getting away with something at the taxpayer’s expense. I suggest that “Consumer” write direct to the Minister of Industries and Commerce and explain the matter in detail— Yours, etc., SIXTY YEARS A WORKER.
Rakaia, September 19, 1951. [When this letter was referred to the secretary of the New Zealand Master Bakers’ Federation (Mr G. R. Burrowes), he said that the intention was that the price of bread should have been reduced by 2d for 41b and Id for 21b. He knew of only one baker who had not done this. That baker had previously been entitled to charge Is 7d for retail delivered bread but had only charged Is 6d, and from September 3 he had reduced the price by Id instead of by 2d, which was of course quite equitable.]
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Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26538, 28 September 1951, Page 5
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