Without Bread On Three Days

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31235, 6 December 1966, Page 20

Without Bread On Three Days

Christchurch residents will be without bread for only three days at both Christmas and New Year.

Bakers and their employees will forego one day of each of the Christmas and New Year holiday periods to ensure that fresh bread will be available each Tuesday.

The president of the Canterbury Master Bakers’ Association (Mr W. R. Hawker) said yesterday that deliveries would be announced in the newspapers by advertisements.

The public would be without fresh bread on only one day more than at a normal week-end, he said. Employees in the industry worked long hours, said Mr Hawker. Few consumers would not regard the lack of fresh bread for one additional day as a reasonable concession to employees in having another day with their families.

Asked to comment on a statement in Wellington by the chairman of the Consumer Council (Mr G. E. Wood), that the prospect of being without fresh bread for five days at both Christmas and New Year sounded “a bit grim,” Mr Hawker said: “I am unaware of what bakers in other centres are doing, or what restrictions, if any, the unions have placed on working overtime. “But if all the holidays prescribed in the Bakers ’Award were observed, there would be four days in which fresh bread was unobtainable, not five days as stated by Mr Wood,” he said.

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