OUR DAILY BREAD

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXXIV, Issue 5, 29 October 1924, Page 7

OUR DAILY BREAD

In advocating compulsory wrapping of bread hi paper or some such suitable material a writer in the New Zealand Bakers and Grocers' Review says: "Quite recently, while on his way to business, the writer saw the driver of a bread cart stop, take a stone out of his horse's hoof, and the next moment lift an armful of bread from his cart into a shop! Frequently in delivering bread a pyramid of loaves is carried in the driver's arms, resting against his coat and steadied by his chin. Sleeves and hands are made to take the place of handkerchiefs at times a tiling was witnessed by the writer a few days ago), and a busy delivery man has neither the time nor place to wash his hands in the course of a day's work. In many shops, stores and markers the bread is exposed on open counters for hours to dust, flies, and random handling, or to having foreign objects placed upon it. Whether in large cities or in small towns, this question of why bread should be wrapped touches every home and \he health of everyone who .uses bread. If customers refuse to buy unwrapped bread, they will get it cleanly wrapped. Wrapped bread spells improved health."