ZONING AND WHOLEMEAL BREAD

Evening Post, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 76, 26 September 1942, Page 6

ZONING AND WHOLEMEAL BREAD

(To the Editor.)

Sir, —May I, as a mere consumer, join in the bread zoning controversy? To many people the only bread worth calling such is the 100 per cent, wholemeal loaf, and to deprive them of this would be a real hardship, requiring some justification. My household has made this bread a valuable mainstay in its diet for years, and now, along with others, we are being compelled to depend on a very ordinary class of bread that appeals neither to our palate nor digestion. In my locality two shops, closely adjacent, have been giving an ample supply of high-quality bread to their customers. . Now the whole available supply of that bread has been allocated to only one of the shops, while the other shop has to take a supply that is undesirable to a large proportion of its customers. Surely, in common justice, the supply "of popular quality bread should have been allocated to both the closely adjacent shops, so that all customers could get at least a portion of their previous supplies.— l am, etc.,

FAIRPLAY

The North Island Zoning Officer (Mr. H. M. Christie), to whom the correspondent's letter was referred, replied as follows:—"There are very few bakers who do not manufacture wholemeal bread, and it is to be regretted that the baker now supplying the shop the correspondent has been in the habit of dealing with does not manufacture such bread. Under the circumstances his only alternative is to obtain the bread from the other shop mentioned. Zoning is forced upon us through shortage of tyres resulting from enemy action, and the matter raised by the correspondent is one of the many little inconveniences which we must put up with. We shall be very fortunate if this is the worst we have to suffer."