WHITE BREAD OR BROWN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19780, 29 October 1927, Page 12

WHITE BREAD OR BROWN.

ATTITUDE OF BAKERS. " BEST LEFT TO THE PUBLIC," " The duty of the baker is to give the public what it demands, and not to criticise its likes and dislikes," was the way in which Mr. J. H. McDougall, of Brisbane, yesterday summed up the attitude of bakers toward the relative merits of wholemeal bread, compared with white bread. Tha remark was made during discussion which followed the delivery of an address by Mr. G C. Barrett, of Victoria, on " The. Standardisation of Wholemeal," at the annual conference of the Federated Master Bakers' Association of Australia and New Zealand. Mr. McDougall said that an indication of the trend of public opinion was that his output of brown bread in Adelaide had increased during the last two years from 10 per cent, of total to over 12 per cent. Mr. E. .1. Burbeck, of Adelaide, said he was a staunch advocate of white bread, describing as "rubbish" the statements that its use was responsible for al! kinds of modern ills. Mr. F. Reed and Mr. 11. R. Burton, of Sydney, agreed that it was a matter best left to the public. The part of the baker was to produce the best quality bread of either variety.