SATURDAY BREAD

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29128, 13 February 1960, Page 12

SATURDAY BREAD

Award Allegedly Broken

(Jiew Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, February 12. With six Auckland master bakers defying a ban on baking Saturday bread, the Labour Department today stated that it was considering taking legal action against them. Dairies in the areas served by these bakers have been advised —“unofficially”—by their association not to handle Saturday bread. Both the Auckland Master Bakers’ Association and the Bakers’ Union have asked the Labour Department to see that the new award forbidding the baking of bread between 9 ajm. Friday and noon on Sunday is observed. The district superintendent of the Labour Department (Mr W. H. Cadwallader) said inquiries had been made into the practices of some bakers in Auckland in baking bread during times prohibited by the award, which came into force on December 11, last. “The department has under consideration the institution of legal proceedings against some bakers who, it has been found, are acting contrary to the award,” he said. Both the Master Bakers’ Association and the Bakers’ Union declined to comment on the situation today other than to confirm that official complaints had been laid.

Basketball Fight.— Players ana fans from Manhattan College and New York University staged one of the biggest free-for-alls in the history of Madison Square Garden last night just before the end of the first game of a college basketball double-billing. An estimated 60 fans and players from both camps poured on to the floor and broke up into about 10