COST OF BAKING BREAD

Grey River Argus, 22 April 1925, Page 3

COST OF BAKING BREAD

Although S.r Prune is Bell na s a( [. vised V» cilingum to o pcn a municipal bakery. bis pol.tical friends ai the municipal elections a’e agreed that such a proposition is fantastic and impracticable. Dear old pi’ofi’toeriny; enterprise is good enough for tncm, a-nd no 0.-übt most o." them (To very well out of ii. But \x hat about turs.’ Attached t (> th ; - Well'ngton Hospital is a bakery tor tin- v .upplx- of bread to those* under the rare* of the Hospital Board, and there is none of the •‘efficiency’’ of private enterprise about it. • lust lately one cl Labour's repress., tatixes on the Board <Mr. f* TL ’. ti.-q .. man) cbcitc'el the loi'owmg tactx abj'it the (<>st of baking bread at this I 'lblicly oxvned bkery: One ton of fkx.r IIL., other (-barges LI Ids. Tb c x cost of working- up on e ton ( f flour iiro bread was ,L*2s l.*h and :.<s one ton of flour yields 271)0 lbs ol bread the <->st per lb is 2' l d. t<> xxbieh must be added a minute fraction ns the (barge lor rent, dims the Board's bakerx i noout bread as just -lightly more than ltd :i 2l|> load. |( r \\lrrli 7d must be paid in ai'ix- shop in W’ellnigton. Most of the difference. \i>... the people pnv for the privilege of being served bv private! enterprise. — N.Z. Woike”