RUSH FOR BREAD

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22079, 22 July 1946, Page 5

RUSH FOR BREAD

QUEUES IN LONDON PRE-RATION SCENES FLOUR ALSO IN DEMAND vlO n m > LONDON. July 21. Bakers and grocers from many parts of Britain report a rush for bread and dour supplies. Housewives are buying twice the usual quantities of bread in anticipation of the beginning of rationing to-day. The Ministry of Food warned bakers and housewives against extra purchasing, which would have no effect. Tiie evening papers carry pictures of lona queues 'for bread which formed earlv in the morning. One woman was carrying 10 large loaves. The women, when stocks were exhausted at one shop, rushed to join a queue at another. Bakers’ Compliance The National Association of Master Bakers, after much opposition and requests for the postponement of bread rationing, sent out a circular suggesting that local associations should collect bread units on their rounds on Monday morning, says the Daily Mail. The bakers are apparently responding to appeals by the Minister of Food, Mr. J. Strachey. and Mr. Churchill “to do their best to make the scheme work.” The secretary of the National Association of Master Bakers, Mr. Caldwallader, said the executive could not give a' definite lead, but it had asked the local branches to reconsider the position in the light of Mr. Churchill’s appeal to try to work rationing and leave the responsibility for a breakdown to the Government. The bakers in London and the outlying districts have already begun to collect bread unit coupons from their customers to-day. The local food offices were besieged all day by demands for help in the scheme’s technicalities. Many bakers had to work out last-minute schemes to ensure that they could make their returns to the Food Ministry.