Grocers Determined Not To Wrap Bread

Chronicle (Levin), 12 February 1949, Page 4

Grocers Determined Not To Wrap Bread

NAP-iEE, Feb. 11. Grocers throughbut New Zealand will hght tke legislatipn enacted a year igo making it . mahdafpry for them to wrap bread. At the -coneluding seasion of the annual conference of the New -Zealand Master Grocers' Eederatioh. tl\is morniilg it' was decided that ! the Minister . pf Health he advised that ' until. the, q.uestion, ' of , bread wrapping ' was adequately dealt with by' the. Gov* hrnmfexit grocers yhtbughpui New Zea'; ' land "woujd pe urg:e4 n.Ot t'o wrap byeadi It was 'als° agreefi that the /federation should ,meet thq .cost of the'defence of „any ..pfpgecutions ,.of ■ memberg/ of affiliated asspciations for breaches of the regulations. /N/ ' /* '-. After one delegate \ had pointed out ' that the legislaiion was passed a year ago and suggested that it"' had not been enforeed, Mr. N. Poole (Bouthland) said that every stpre in Inyer- . cargill had been viaited .J3y; Health Department officials '' in .the'% past " fo'rtnigh t. Grocers we.re / lnf Prmed ' * tjiat thev must wrap' all breadi ,The',;eost of wrapping was one far'thing/.a'. loaf, said Mr. Poole, adding^that visits h'y departmental in.speetors conld tbe .,expected in all centr.es. . / Mr. J. W. Wilson (Canterbury)v con* tended that the responsibility * for wrapping bread lay with' - the/ bakers. He pointed out that ' there /was ' a greater risk of contamihatio.n . befqrc delivery to grocers than afterwhrds. Mr. Wilson men'tioned large deliveries by bakers direet to, consu'mers,' and said there was no- compulsion ■ oti bakers to wrap these deliveries. /-/' : The bakers had taken up a strong attitude and the responsibility was' then passed to the grocers, said Mr .' B-. Williams (Auckland). / f fIt is. time we stood iip for ourr ' selves, ' ' said Mr. E. Gray : (Canter- ' burv) in moving that the federation take a firm stand. He thought that it wouTd not be practicable to enforeO legislation beeause of the paper shortage. ' The remit was adopted unanimously.