BAKERS' AGREEMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 296, 16 December 1941, Page 5

BAKERS' AGREEMENT

DELIVERY OF BREAD Wil l. (EASE IX CHRISTCHI RCH (Pr- - A*snJ Christchurch. Dee 15. Al lhe ui gent request of the Wheat and Flour Controller (Mr. R. McPherson), Christchurch metropolitan bakers m- t to-day to devise means of 1 conserving petrol and manpower. Conferences wer< also held by the iConlrolier with the president (Mr. '.John Railton) and a member of lhe ,ex-cutive of the Master Grocers’ Association. ami th- president (Mr. E. I Guthrie' and executive of the Can't erbury Fruit buyers' Association. i Aftei full discussion n was decided ithat the private delivery bread in ti e metropolitan area should cease as from January 5. Although the 'nal.-rs wr’- reluctant to relinquish the goodwill built up over so many \< . . with plicate consumers, they felt compcll-'| to make this effort in t ■ ... ency. Arrangements were to be made to de'iver bread in extreme necessitous cases, such as sickness and old age. An extra burden will be thrown on grocers, (dailies and other distributors, but ;thc*e lutvo willingly agreed to do (thru share as a contribul'on to the Iw ar effort The* public will save de- ! l:\ et v charges and will b* able to get its bread at the cash-ovet-counter I price. Grocers and other depots are within easy reach of mo*t Christphuieh citizens, and even in the most [thinly-serviced area affected no jhaus-s are more than three-quarters [of a mile from a depot. Bakers are [taking this step in the full confidence that the public will accept the small 1 inconvrnirncws a.s set-off against the [great national saving in petrol and manpower. Bakers in other centres have received the same request from the Wheat and Flour Controller, and discussions are now in train.