CRISP BREAD IMPORTS

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 7

CRISP BREAD IMPORTS

Licences About To Be Granted

The first licences for the import of crisp breads since the imposition of import licensing 18 months ago will soon be issued to merchants. It may be three months or more before the imports are available in the shops.

According to advice received yesterday by a Christchurch merchant, licences to import up to 100 per cent, of the 1956 allocation will be granted. “This relaxation will be particularly appreciated by diabetics and those on slimming diets.’’ he said. “Rye biscuits firmly established themselves on this market a few years ago when supplies were plentiful, and they came to form part of the daily diet of many persons. It is more than a year since the last shipments arrived in New Zealand and stocks have been exhausted long ago." Developed and popularised by the Scandinanvians, crisp breads have also met a ready demand ip Britain. One of the earliest brands is now manufactured in Britain under licence, and much of New Zealand’s supplies in recent years have come from this source.

Hedge Fire.—About 10ft of gorse hedge was burnt on property occupied by Mr T. Odgers at 3 Sturrocks road yesterday. A spark from a rubbish fire is believed to have caused the blaze, to which a unit from the St. Albans station was called at 4.50 p.m.