BREAD DELIVERY
MINISTER REPROVES TRADE (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Oct. 21. It was time the baking industry recognised that it had an obligation to the community to restore the household delivery services which were suspended under wartime emergency, and those services should be resumed without further delay, declared the Minister of Transport, Mr O’Brien, to-day. To say that the Government was gravely dissatisfied with the delaying tactics adopted by the baking industry in the matter was putting it mildly. The industry had been given almost watertight protection during the war against new competition, and he was told that fewer bakeries than pre-war were now sharing the bread trade of the Dominion, with the obvious result of enhanced turnovers for nearly all bakeries. Mr O’Brien reviewed previous negotiations on the matter, and said the Government had assured ' the bakers of adequate petrol and tyre supplies to enable deliveries to be resumed. There were also sufficient delivery vans to enable substantial retail deliveries to be resumed.
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Evening Star, Issue 25928, 21 October 1946, Page 6
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162BREAD DELIVERY Evening Star, Issue 25928, 21 October 1946, Page 6
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