BRITISH-MADE LOAF

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 942, 8 April 1930, Page 9

BRITISH-MADE LOAF

BAKERS TO USE HOME FLOUR FOR BREAD SNOWDEN’S NEW DECREE United P.A.—By Telegraph—Copyright \ LONDON, Sunday. ' Information has reached the master I bakers that in connection with the! Budget the Chancellor of the Excheq-1 uer, Mr. Snowden, is considering a scheme to provide for the compulsory j use in bread of a stipulated percentage of flour made from British wheat, ana for financial assistance to British j wheatgrowers. It is understood that a compulsory | sliding scale is to be fixed, ranging | from "i per cent, to 20 per cent.,

according to the available supply of British wheat. Anything like 20 per cent, at present would be impossible. It is assumed that the scheme involves the regulation of wheat imports, but as far as is known there is no intention to

differentiate between flour from foreign countries and that from the overseas Empire. The master bakers oppose the scheme on the ground that it would prevent the purchase of flour for which the public has acquired a taste. The bakers throughout Britain are now using 20 to 30 per cent, of strong Canadian flours blended in varying proportions with British, Australian and Argentina flours. BLENDED FLOUR URGED Now the bakers are considering forwarding a petition to Mr. Snowden urging the use of established brands of flour and blending them under a system which will enable proof to he given from their books that the requisite proportions are observed. Mr. Snowden’s proposals are regarded as menacing, both to Canadian millers and Empire producers. The Canadian Government is reported to be seriously perturbed owing to the unsatisfactory state of the wheat market. ' . A message from Ottawa states the Minister of Trade and Commerce, Mr. James Malcolm, stated that Canadian wheat farmers had nothing to fear from the proposal of the British Chancellor of the Exchequer to compel British flour-millers to use up to 20 per cent, of British-grown wheat. Canadian wheat, Mr. Malcolm said, never comprised more than 50 per cent, of the flour used in the United Kingdom and Mr. Snowden’s proposal should not prevent the use of the normal amount of Canadian wheat. BUDGET FORECAST LONDON, Monday. The “Daily Telegraph’s” diplomat ic correspondent forecasts the following Budget features: Retention of the McKenna and silk duties, no increase in the standard rate of income-tax, higher taxation on unearned incomes, an increased surtax which probably will begin with salaries of £1,500, higher death duties, increased duties on beer, tobacco and petrol and taxation of land values.