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Chronicle (Levin), 20 December 1947, Page 4

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-AUCKLAND, Dec. 19. A 'de'Cisio'n no't 'to wrap bread at the present price. was made at a meeting Ot /efiffisfeiit'atives of . the Auckland Retail Dairj' afid Conf ectioners ' Associatiofi. 'and Auckland hrasters Grocers' Association. It Was stated that iii'l9&6 t'h6 inargifi. efi wiajiped bfead Was itl per two pound loaf but when the figure was reduced tO one halfpenny per loaf, wrapping wa?, • discontinued. ^ Members felt that if the Mifiister of Health, Miss. Howard, now considered "that the Wfa'ppihg 61 bte'ad sh'Ould be re-ifistitiVted, she shofiid s'Ce that t&taiie'rs wehe c-onipefisated fyr 'the eost •involved. It had beefi fiiade clear, howeveT, that customers -wTho wanted' their bread. wrapped could provide their own paper Dr ofTie'r Vvra'p'ping fiiate'rial. The Seeretary of the. Auckland Mastef 'Gi•ocers, Association, Mr. R. M. Barker, said retailers were emphatie that the dafrgefs of contamination were far greater from. bread delivered froni bakers' -carts than from retail shops.. A subs'tantfal quantity of bread was left. 'i'fi boxCs by deliv*efyfiien 'aficl no actioA had beefi taken to pf6vent this prac.tise. The danger of contamination conld not fie effectiveiy rempved until. all "bread was vVfapped -a't the bafcehouses. The president of the New Zealand : Wornefi's Food .VwhVe Le'agfie, Dr. Barbara Roche, said "the ideal would bA for bread to be wrapped at t-he ba-ke-houses. She understood bakers were not allowed a sufficient margin td alloW them to install wrapping- machines andto supply the necessafy paper and fel't 'that the Pi-iee Trib'unal should make afi •allowafiee for the work.