DEAR FLOUR

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20744, 2 March 1939, Page 6

DEAR FLOUR

MABTER BAKERB PROTEST COUNTRY SUFFERS FOR CITIES The opinion that country bakers were being made the chopping block so that the price of flour to city bakers could be kept down was expressed by members at a meeting of the South Auckland Master Bakers’ Association in Hamilton yesterday at which a resolution protesting to the ’Minister of Industries and’Commerce, the Hon. D. G. Sullivan against a recent rise of 21s Gd a ton in the price of flour was carried. It was stated that while all country bakers had been notified by the Wheat Committee of a rise in the price of flour, the city men would not suffer in this respect and it looked as if the Government was expecting only tlie country bakers to shoulder tlie increased s costs. Of the 200 tons of flour milled in Auckland per day 80 tons were used by country bakers so that the rise per ton would mean a considerable sum in the aggregate.

Hamilton and Whangarei had apparently suffered most heavily in respect to the increased price of flour, stated the president, Mr R. A. Grigg, who suggested that little could be done except by pointing out to tlie Minister the unfairness of the position.