BAKERIES AFFECTED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31305, 27 February 1967, Page 3

BAKERIES AFFECTED

Dismissal Of Staff (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Feb. 26. Some Auckland smallgoods 'bakeries report big reductions in sales since the Campaign Against Rising Prices called for a housewives’ boycott of biscuits. Mr J. Linghorn. the owner of a small bakery in Rosebank road, Avondale, said he would be dismissing five of his staff within a few days. “C.A.R.P. has said some very unjust things about retailers,” he said. Mr W. White, owner of the New Lynn Cake Company. Ltd., said he would have to reduce his staff of 17 by seven. He doubted whether he could last more than two more months in business if the boycott continued. “And from what I hear in the trade several other bakeries will be closing down in the next week or so,” he said. Mr F. Rehm, of New Lynn, who has a staff of 13 in a bakery and three shops, will close his 38-year-old business on Friday. He says his decision is due to the boycott. A C.A.R.P. committee member in New Lynn, Mrs W. Beanland, said that she found it “very hard to believe” that C.A.R.R’s boycott could have forced anyone out of business yet.

Motor-cyclist Dies A youth who suffered severe head and internal injuries when his motor-cycle left the road in the Greenpark district on Thursday morning died In Christchurch Hospital last evening. He was Russell Keith Thompson, aged 19, of Greenpark.