CHAOTIC SITUATION
BREAD RATIONING IN BRITAIN THE PUBLIC APATHETIC LONDON, July 24. “ There. has been more waste of bread in Plymouth during the two days of bread rationing than in the previous year,” declared Mr G. G. Pooley, chairman of the Plymouth and District Master Bakers’ Association. “We are finding it very difficult to work the scheme,” he added. "Roundsmen are working all hours trying to collect coupons, but the apathy of the public is making the situation chaotic.” A Cowes confectioner at the end of the second day of bread rationing had so many cakes on hand that he asked the local food office if he could sell them without coupons. After being told that he could not, he gave aw more than 1000 cakes to children on the way to school. Hundreds of bakers’ roundsmen in various parts of the country are still refusing to collect coupons, although continuing deliveries.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26214, 26 July 1946, Page 5
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152CHAOTIC SITUATION Otago Daily Times, Issue 26214, 26 July 1946, Page 5
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