Department might act if bread banned

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32945, 17 June 1972, Page 16

Department might act if bread banned

(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, June 16. The dairy ban on special bread, if it comes into force, may run foul of a Government commission.

A meeting of Auckland dairy-owners has been called for Sunday night to sort out the confusion, although dairies appear to be falling in line with their executive. In the meantime some bakers and bread vendors

. have offended dairy men by . allegedly telling individuals . that they were the only shopkeepers in their area support- ! ing the ban. i A head office Industries ■ and Commerce spokesman in Wellington said today that if sections of the public were shut off completely from cer- ■ tain varieties of bread, the i department might recommend to the Trade Practices and ' Prices Commission that it order the ban to be lifted. The Dairy and Confectionery Mixed Business Association has called the ban on all bread except the standard 14c loaf in protest against a Price Tribunal order that dairies get a blanket markup of 2c a loaf on all bread. A baker who fears he may lose his business if the ban

succeeds today retracted ah offer which would have given his 150 retail outlets a 6 per cent discount on returns. Mr B. M. Holman, of Cottage Bakeries, Ltd, Royal Oak, had approached these dairies with the discount offer.

“I have no option but to retract the offer as I have been advised by my accountant that action could be taken against me,” he said.