BREAD SUPPLIES THREATENED

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15320, 16 September 1920, Page 5

BREAD SUPPLIES THREATENED

LOCAL BAKERS 1 PREDICA&ENT. The sugar 'famine is beginning- to make itself felt m a potent manner m Gisborne, affecting bread production. One local bakery establishment is faced with the position of having to close down, bread manufacture at the end of \kd week unless, supplies of sugar are inured. In conversation with a.pressman this morning one baker stated that the bakery utilised 701bs of sugar; per week for making yeast for the. manu- - ( facture of bread, and the supplies now on. hand would be worked out at tho end of the week. Brown sugar could be | used for this' purpose m the case of emergency, but the bread was not so good as when white sugar was used. Even brewer's crystals were unprocurable, and. some of the local bakeries were carrying on with "What small supplies of brown sugar they were able to procure. Some of. the bakery establishments were formerly supplied with sugar from Auckland, and these had received advice to ■■ endeavor to procure supplies from local merchants' stores, but on application .being made the reply was that "they were sold out of sugar." Inquiries made at Napier and Hastings re-, vealed a similar condition in.' those localities, and even brown sugar was practically unobtainable. .' ,/

The head of another firm stated that at the most they only had about a fortnight's supply -of sugar on. hand, und their .efforts to secure supplies of brown sugar had been m vain. One bakery they knew was carrying on with treacle. Of course with the pise of sugar yeast their supply would hot last a fortnight j therefore tho malt yeast Used by them had enabled the sugar to last out longer. One restaurant was given two pounds of icing sugar to/carry on with. Local bakers all view with alarm the famine m sugar, and are at their wits' end to procuro supplies of anything tb tserye the purpose of thia necessary commodity ,