“STATE” BREAD FOR N.S.W.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 61, 15 March 1915, Page 7

“STATE” BREAD FOR N.S.W.

MONEY IN PEOPLE'S POCKETS.

United Press Association

Sydney, .March 11

At a meeting ol Hie iUioter linkers’ Association, lion. Hall outlined Ills scheme tor nationalising the bread industry.. He challenged the bakers to contradict his statement that by spending half a million the Government could deliver broad to private houses a penny a loaf cheaper than the bakers.

Mr Hall proposes to economise by buying flour in large quantities, eliminating the cost of running hundreds of bakehouses, spending no money on advertising or carters’ bonuses," and sending one cart to each street instead of twenty. Ho estimates a saving of jH.50,000 per annum in delivery charges alone. Ihero will b© bad no bad debts, the State selling books :,f coupons, exchangeable for loaves, lie reduction of a penny a loaf will .ave people £2500 weekly and leave i largo profit. He. proposes to acjuire thirty-five to forty bakeries, nd compensate the owners. He will ppoint an expert board to consider ofors, Mr Hail remarked that the U! stcr baker, in future must bo prepared to embark £25,000. Already •ompanies have been formed throughat New Zealand in the ordinary .mrso-of industrial evolution without JovernmoJit intervention. Within ten years the bread monopolies established in all the large centres would bo as profitable as the Colonial Sugar Company, but the Government proposes to forestall the trusts in the public inLorcsts,