Refresher Course For Bakers

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30211, 16 August 1963, Page 21

Refresher Course For Bakers

During the last week 18 bakers from all parts of New Zealand have been attending a refresher course in baking in Christchurch. The course, which concludes this afternoon, is held about once a year and is organised by the Wheat Research Institute of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Most of the men attending the course are senior bakers in charge of ’ production in their various factories. However. two or three are senior apprentices and one or two are bakery proprietors. The course has consisted of a series of lectures and several inspections of factories in the Christchurch area. Yesterday the bakers visited one of the country’s largest bakeries and earlier in the week they inspected a biscuit factory, a flour mill.

a cake factory and a factory which manufactures the ovens and machinery for a bakery. Subjects covered in the course dealt a little with “the traditional arts and knowledge of baking,” but the most attention had been given to the way in which traditional knowledge . and methods had to be modified to get the best use of the modem machinery, the director of the Wheat Research Institute (Mr E. W. Hullett) said. Lectures have also been given by scientific staff attached to the institute, and Mr C. A. Crawford, the institute's baking instructor, has conducted most of the inspections.