CARRYING BREAD

Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 148, 20 December 1945, Page 6

CARRYING BREAD

Sir, —Your correspondent (Saturday, December 14), who lives in a hilly suburb and has to carry bread home, has my deep sympathy. I, too, live in a hilly suburb, and until last week I thought it was very hard to have to carry bread home up a steep hill. Now I have been told that after this week I cannot have any bread at all to carry home unless I transfer my butter registration to the store from which' I have always bought my bread. Is this a further family benefit from our enlightened Government—that I must submit to pressure of this kind, or have no bread at all? Must I be held to ransom with my butter registration, and forced to transfer all my trade to a storekeeper who Will adopt these tactics, or else'find some other bread seller who will accept my trade, and then have still further'weary miles of hill and dale to carry my bread? And my bread is cut off the week before Christmas.

We all know that bread was delivered to the home until after war came. The war is over, the majority of the men are back, there is no real shortage of the means of delivery. Then what prevents bread delivery being restored to us? Only the weakness of a Government that cares not for 400,000 overburdened housewives, but bows to the wishes of bread-makers. —I am, etc., STAFF OF LIFE.