BREAD FOR EASTER
Fresh Supply In City Christchurch housewives should have adequate supplies of fresh bread over the Easter holidays. The present arrangements were for bakers to wonk -on Thursday and Saturday of Easter week, Mr C. S. Scott, president of the Canterbury Master Bakers’ Association, said last evening. There would be a meeting next week to confirm tihe arrangements, he said, and there had been no indication that the workers had any objection to Easter work.
“It would be physically impossible to go on baking continuously for several days ahead of Easter so there could be a full break,” Mr Scott said. “In any case there would then be stale bread for some.”
The demand for hot cross buns added to Easter work, he said. Mr Scott had been asked to comment on a Press Association message from Wellington which said there would be no bread baked in Wellington during the fourday Easter holiday week-end. A spokesman for the Wellington Bakery Workers’ Union said that the men had decided not to bake. “I suppose this will go in the paper now so that the housewives can have a go at us, but do you know Easter is the only holiday these blokes get other than their annual holidays?” Mr Scott, as a baker himself, sympathised with the desire for holidays when most others were off work; but added that baking was hard work involving long and awkward hours to meet a public demand.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 17
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244BREAD FOR EASTER Press, Volume CII, Issue 30092, 28 March 1963, Page 17
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