Proposed Municipal Bakery

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 November 1916, Page 3

Proposed Municipal Bakery

BOROUGH COUNCIL DECLINES TO ENTERTAIN IT. At the meeting of the Levin Borough Council held three weeks since Councillor FoscHa mom! that the time was opportune for the council to establish a municipal baker?'. The result of the discussion on the motion was that the proposal was referred to a committee of the council for investigation and report. This was read to councillors last evening at the council meeting : it said briefly that the committee had no recommendation to make. Though not- favoured! by the- council the proposal evidently found the support outside, for Councillor Robertson presented a petition bearing 270 names, asking the council' to establish a municipal bakery. Councillor Robertson said that other copies of the petition with names attached had notcome toi hand The unnyor sa.id that although people might sign 'a- petition for a municipal bakery it did not bind the signatories to purchase' their bread from a muniic'lpal bakery. He moved that the report of the committee be adopted. Councillor Harvey seconded the motion.

Councillor Robertson Raid tlie number of names on the petition showed that the council should seriously consider the matter. So far as the necessity went he always believed in the necessity of municipal enterprise : it was a check on the caprice o>f piVva te enterprise. He saw in the paper that a local baker was advertising to deliver bread anywhere throughout the district at 34c! per loaf. If this could be done u'rth the rising market for flour t showed something was wrong with the figures on the cost of bread- that had Tjeen submitted to the committee Oanircillor Fosella said the reductiion in the price of bread was made simply to frustrate his proposal. Give thein plenty of rope and it would soon end. As all the councillors were hot present consideration of the proposal should be held over. CoimcOllor Herrick did not consider the time opportune to establish a. municipal bakery. He strongly objected to it. Councillor Dempsey explained in respect to the baker who was advert! sing to sell bread at 3|d -that it was his only chance to sell bread ati all as he had no shops like the other bakers. The report was adopted on the votes of Councillors Herrick, Harvey. Jones. Dempsey and the mayor. Councillors Fnse.la and Robertson voted against ifs rdoptli'on.