BREAD FOR CASH.

Otago Witness, Issue 2818, 18 March 1908, Page 40

BREAD FOR CASH.

(From: Our Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, March 10. The Wellington bakers are going to cea&e giving credit to their customers, and all booking will be done away with. Customers will be invited to buy coupons in sheets containing, say, 3s worth. The baker will supply his carter each day with bread and coupons checked into the cart, and the man will have to bring back coupons or loaves to the same total number at the conclusion of his round. There will bo no reduction in price to the purchasers of the coupons. Th 9 only exceptions to the rigid rule of "cash or coupon " will be made in favour of hospitals and charitable aid boards. The new sliding scale of prices adopted at the conference is as follows: — When flour is £3 a ton, bread will be 6(1 the 41b loaf (and, of course, 3d the 2ib loaf). AYhen flour is £9 5s the ton, the 41b loaf will cost 6id; flour £10 10s, bread 7d ; flour £11 15s, bread 74d ; and if we ever see flour at £13 bread wjII be 8d the 41b loaf.