DELIVERY OF BREAD.
SPEED AND CLEANLINESS. THE CHOICE OF TRANSPORT. The question whether motor-vans or horse-drawn vehicles should be used for the delivery of bread was discussed by members of the Federated Master Bakers Association of Australia and New Zealand at the annual conference in Auckland yesterday. Mr. F. Reed, of Sydney, said the use of motors for house-to-house delivery in thickly-populated areas was a failure on account of the high initial cost and depreciation compared with that of horsedrawn vehicles. "Motors cannot save time," he said. "In fact, horse delivery is quicker, for when a horse hears a carter shut the gate at one house he walks to the next."
Mr. J. H. McDougall, of Brisbane, said the use of the modern utility truck would assist bakers to reduce their working costs. The amount of petrol used while the en gine was running would amount to only a few pence a day. Further, it was almost impossible to keep the yards of the premises as scrupulously clean as they should be if horses were stabled there. Discussion of the relative merits of the two forms of transport ensued, in which the balance of opinion appeared to favour motor-van delivery in the interests of hygiene.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 12
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205DELIVERY OF BREAD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19779, 28 October 1927, Page 12
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