Bakers and Their Grievances.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 6540, 8 May 1889, Page 3

Bakers and Their Grievances.

j TO THE EDITOR. =>iR,-— According to the present arrangements by which the bakers' trade is curried on, the master suffers equal hardships with ; the man, and thoy cannot be avoided. The mischief lies with the public, who demand a hot loaf direct from the oven for breakrast. Poor things ! Ido not wonder at so many had cases of indigestion and so many • dehrate ladies in our midst. If the public woUid abandon this custom and let the ■ trade be carried on in a sensible way (or, leb the bakers unite and enforce it,) then j it would bo better for all parties. ; The remedy I suggest is, sny, let a baker j andhisyouny man oejjin at three o'clock in : the afternoon to make and bake ; let the | master and man alternately at eight j o'clock each morning commence the dei livery of bread, changing aboutand acting ' jointly more or less in the bakehouse. Then the baker and his man need only ; work from eight iv the morning to six at ! I night, and the poor loaf will have n chance 1 1 of getting cool before it is plumped into I | the stoms.'.^ j voui a red-hot oven. — I am, &o. : WILLIAM PARKER.