A HYGIENE BAKERY.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 1 October 1915, Page 4

A HYGIENE BAKERY.

BEEAD-MAKING BY MACHINERY. An enterprise that deserves the utmost consideration from the people of Taihape and district is that exhibited by Messrs. Butchart and Co., of the Taihape Bakery, who have just installed into their bakehouse the very latest class of hygienic bread and cake mixing machinery, which is worthy of a town that can furnish ten times the patronage that is possible here. With this improved food . making machinery it is not necessary to touch the dough with the hands at all; the ingredients, whether it be eggs, milk, flour, yeast, or whatever else required, are just put into the machine for the purpose and they come out in the most perfect condition. Of course, there are small machines' for cakes and sponges, up to the ordinary breadmaking machine weighing nearly two tons. This bakery is now capable of turning out a hygienically evolved loaf of bread as any other town in New Zealand, or in any other part of the world, and it may be remarked that Messrs. Butchart and Co., in this installation, are displaying a wonderful faith in the future of this town, as it has cost them upwards of £3OO. It is true a saving in original cost of some £4O could have been made by taking machinery from German workshops, but the Butchart brothers preferred paying the extra and procuring it from workshops they knew in their own native land, "the land of the Kilties." The largo bread mixers is that known as the "Excelsior," made by Molvin and Sons, Glasgow, a firm that has equipped.many of the largest hygienic bakeries in the Homeland. It has been installed for some two or three weeks and its Avorking has been surprisingly perfect. It is bolted doAvn to an immense bed of concrete some three feet thick, giving it rigidity, and the Avork cleanly faced to prevent 'accumulation of dust. It is dm-en by electric power, a new four-horse e]eetriet motor having been installed for the purpose. A. member of this jaurnaih staff, A\-ho has seen similar machinery at Avork, pronounces it to be the most modern of bread-making machines, and such as are recommended and sometimes insisted upon by London County Council. The- mixers of small goods are much smaller machines, but when it is considered that Messrs. Butchart make a ton and a half of ordinary cake each week on an average, independent of sponges, and other small goods, it is not insignificant cake-mix-ing power that is required. However, the point of alil-importance to Taihape is the fact that a modern hygienic bakery has beeu established in the town where bread is made in the latest approA'ed methods demanded by health authorities in many places. It is understood that Messrs. Butchart Avill henceforth call their establishment "The Hygienic Bakery." .