CAKES AND PASTRY

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3069, 3 May 1917, Page 4

CAKES AND PASTRY

NO RESTRICTION* AT PRESENT.

A report that the Government, off the recommendation of the National Efficiency Board, intended shortly to place an embargo on the manufacture of cakes and pastry is decidedly pro--mature. The board has not yet mads a recommendation on the point, and! the Govenment has not taken any ao tion. The Acting-Prime Minister (Sir James Allen) stated yesterday that the report was "pure imagination," though he realised that some step_ of the kind might be desirable later, in the event of a serious shortage of wheat. and flour. It does ,not appear that the saving in flour to be effected! by the prohibition of the sale of cakes and' pastry would be considerable. Biscuits and sandwiches would take the placd of the vanished confectionery on_tho afternoon tea tables, and the flcur would bo used as before. . „ • Another rumour was to the effect that the Government intended' to restrict the liouse-to-houso delivery ot bread. No step in this direction is' contemplated at the present time ihd matter really is arranging itself, sires when a baker's carter enlists or w picked up in the ballot, his place either remains vacant or is filled by some men ineligible for 'service. The number of loaves of bread .delivered daily m "ft ellington is dtereasing, nudhundreds of nooplo who used to take their bread at the door from the "bakers.man sw now calling for it at the stores and depots. How far this process will continue remains to be seen. It is that the progress of enlistment aj~'<Uha increasing shortage of labour will fcrco tho bakors to discourago house-to-houso delivery of their bread.