BREAD DELIVERIES

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26780, 25 May 1948, Page 4

BREAD DELIVERIES

NO OFFICIAL MOVE

PUBLIC REACTION AWAITED

EFFECT OF HIGHER PRICE Although the Dunedin Master i Bakers’ Association has not yet made an official decision about the delivery of bread in the city, some individual bakers are of the opinion that nothing like the pre-war service will again be introduced. Because of the increased price of delivered bread, some bakers told the Daily Times yesterday, they did not think the response by the public would be enthusiastic. Increases in the price of delivered bread, to cover the cost of this service, were approved by the Price Tribunal last week. Prices are now:— Quarter loaf. 3d over counter, 4d delivered; half loaf, o l 2 d over counter, 7d delivered; large loaf, lid over counter. Is 2d delivered. During the past 12 months, when some bakers have been delivering bread in their particular zones in the city, the number of people taking bread from the vans has been small, one baker explained. These deliveries have been made on three days only each week, and the increased prices are now being charged. Until a decision is made by the Master Bakers’ Association, it is not known whether daily deliveries will be introduced or whether the three-days-a-week service will be continued. Neither is it known whether there will be open competition among bakers delivering bread, or whether deliveries will continue to be restricted to zones. “I think we will be waiting to get an idea from the public as to what they want,” another baker said. When asked how this was to be done, he explained that “ it is more or less up to the public to make the first move." Bakers at present delivering bread would seek the views of their customers, he added. This baker did not think that the response by the public would create any necessity for extra vehicles to deliver bread. He was not disposed to comment on the petrol position. He did not think that deliveries would be introduced an a competitive basis, but hastily added that this was his private opinion.