RELIEF FOR BAKERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23275, 18 February 1939, Page 15

RELIEF FOR BAKERS

REGULATIONS WELCOMED NO RETURN OF STALE BREAD SUBSTANTIAL ANNUAL SAVING An enthusiastic reception has been accorded by Auckland bakers to tho Government's new regulations prohibiting the return of stale bread by retailers to the bakers. It was stated yesterday that tho saving would run into thousands of pounds a year and would reduce costs considerably. Under tho present system, it was stated, shopkeepers could return to tho baker at tho full cost price, any loaves of bread not sold over the counter. This meant that some retailers were inclined to pay too little attention to the ordering of their supplies. They allowed themselves a liberal margin of loaves just in case their normal requirements were exceeded. If they did not sell the extra bread tho baker had to take it back. Tho result of this was that every year in New Zealand thousands of tons of bread, representing a large quantity of flour, were sold for pig-food. The new regulations therefore had a threefold effect—they would spare the baker much unnecessary expense, they Would make the retailer operate to a careful margin, and they would have an enormous yearly waste of good materials. This in turn would allow bakers to work to a more accurate margin and would eliminate much unnecessary importation of Australian wheat.