THE PRICE OF BREAD.

Oamaru Mail, Volume X, Issue 4072, 29 March 1888, Page 4

THE PRICE OF BREAD.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib,—Several letters have appeared in your paper on the bread qnrstion, also one in your contemporary. There is no need for all this cry. Eread has been idling in Oimara at 51 for a long time back. I have had a visit from a baker who hails from Danedin. He Bta'ea bread is 5i in Danedin. As regards Mr Pool, who made it 43, ynu would see at whose expense it was done, and what became of him. I may further tell yoa that 4£d per 41b loif for cish over the counter, would pay bakers better than 63, sa at present. Three-fourths of the bread is delivered in 2b leaves, and in some case* a carter is required to call six days Id the week to supply perhaps three 21b loaves. la Oamara it requires two carts to deliver as much as one can do in Dunedin. One of your correspondents siya he pays cash monthly. Get a look at a baker's ledger. Yon will see " monthly" payments are a very serioui matter, often ending in 1ob.». If a b&ker Bucplied a customer a". 4H his custom wru'd only last till his gn c-r or old baker cined it to him at the same eric •, and I am within the mark when I say it coats l&l to deliver 4ibs of breid in Oimaru. I may tell "Victim" that I am a baker by trade, and, although not in that line now, I had over 30 years at bread baking. I am, etc., Practical.