LONDONERS DISAPPOINTED
" BREAD SHORTAGE ARISES Hundreds of people trying to buy loaves were turned away from bakers' shops in North London one day recently owing to a widespread shortage of bread attributed to an unexpected demand, caused by a cooler spell, following the Easter Holidays. The proprietor of a shop in Muswell Hill told a reporter that a sudden drop in temperature always created a vastly increased demand for bread. j "Ordinarily we could have dealt with the change in the weather," he said, "but the fact that thousands of people were returning from holiday as well upset our calculations. I had to refuse a steady stream of customers for four hours." A baker in Blackstock Road, Finsbury Park, stated he had been foreed to disappoint 300 customers in an hour. "After my supply ^f new bread gave out," he said, "I sold four sevenpound tins of dried blscuits, as well as a large quantity of stale bread. A queue of 150 people formed outside another shop near mine, which promised a fresh supply of bread in an hour."
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 7
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179LONDONERS DISAPPOINTED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 585, 17 July 1933, Page 7
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