“COST PROHIBITIVE”

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22571, 26 February 1948, Page 2

“COST PROHIBITIVE”

BAKERS’ CONTENTION BREAD-WRAPPING ISSUE (P.A.) NEW PLYMOUTH, Feb. 26. | The cost of wrapping bread as envisaged in the health food hygiene regulations was prohibitive, it was stated lat the annual conference of the New Eealand Federation of Bakers and Pastrycooks in New Plymouth yesterday. ■; Speakers were adamant that the industry should not undertake wrapping unless it was amply •recompensed for doing so. The Minister of Health, Miss Mabel Howard, had agreed to the suspension of bread-wrapping because of the impossibility of putting the regulations into operation, said the president, Mr. T. H. McKenzie, Southland. The national council recommended that in view of the absence of suitable wrapping paper and plant and because all the relevant facts had been placed before the Ministers of the Crown, the matter should be left in abeyance. ' A suggestion that the Minister should igive at least 12 months' notice of the 'intention to introduce bread-wrapping jwas made by Mr. E. K. Mathseson, Auckland. “We should have an agreement with ■the Minister that there will.be ample l recompense for the trade if it does wrap bread,” said Mr. A. E. Brownlee, 'Auckland. The national councils recommendation was adopted