WHOLEMEAL BREAD.

Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 2

WHOLEMEAL BREAD.

DUTY OF THE BAKER.

(Bv Telegraph. —Press Association.) AUCKLAND, Saturday.

“ The duty of the baker is to give, the public what it demands, and not to criticise its likes and dislikes, was the way in which Mr J. H. McDougall, of Brisbane, yesterday summed up tne attitude of bakers toward the relative merits of wholemeal bread, compared with white bread. _ The remark was made during discussion which fallowed the delivery of an address by Mr G. G. Barrett, of Victoria, on “ The Standardisation of Wholemeal,” at the annual conference of the Federated Master Bakers’ Association of Australia and New Zealand.' Mr McDougall said that an indication of the trend of public opinion was that his output of brown bread in Adelaide had increased during the last two years from 10 per cent, of the total to over 12 per cent. Mr E. J. Burbeck, of Adelaide, said he was a staunch advocate of white bread, describing as “ rubbish ” the statement that its use was responsible for all kinds of modern ills. Mr F. Reed and Mr 11. R. Burton, of Sydney, agreed that was a matter best left to the public. The part of the baker was to produce the best quality bread of either variety .