The Price of Bread.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 233, 1 October 1931, Page 8

The Price of Bread.

To the Editor. Dear Sir, —If “ Live and Let Live ” is the best advocate the master bakers can find to bolster up their profits, it is a poor lookout for them. They have tried Parliament to fix the minimum price and this has been rejected, and properly too. Our GovernorGeneral has stated that the day for large • profits has gone and they don’t like this. When the 10 per cent cut was made we were told the cost of living would come down, and so it has in many lines, and if your correspondent will take a walk to Sydenham he will see bakers' vans from city and suburbs delivering bread to stores and even to butchers. On some shop counters you see as many as a hundred loaves, and consequently our local bakers had to reduce their price also. It was the bakers that brought down prices, not the general public and they are now benefiting by it. In some homes I know they use two loaves a day and now save 3s 6d a week, and I am certain both bakers and storekeepers don’t sell at a loss, which shows that excessive profits have been made in the past, and I don’t think any are paying less than the Bakers’ Award rate, which is a slur on their union secretary—l am, etc., SY DENHAMITE.