NEWS FROM THE PAST

HOUSEWIVES INDIGNANT NEW BREAD DELIVERY SYSTEM IN TOOWOOMBA

Housewives are indignant about the way in which the new co-operative system of bread deliveries is being implemented by bakers. Suburban shops are.no longer handling bread, and if the housewife misses the baker she has to go the bakehouse, which may be a mile or more away. Mr Gordon Chalk MLA said he had received more than 20 telephone calls yesterday morning from people who had not received any bread from their bakers. Others complained that the baker who called was not their usual baker. Mr Chalk will bring the matter up in Parliament this morning by directing a question tot he Minister for Labour and Industry (Mr Gair). Warwick Daily News, December 2, 1947

BREAD DELIVERY IN TOOWOOMBA MAY BE STOPPED

Toowoomba is threatened with a breakdown in the house to house delivery of bread unless serious staff problems are overcome in the near future. This was stated by the secretary of the Co-operative Bread Services (Mr S Cook) today. He was answering allegations that some suburban areas in the city had been without bread deliveries earlier in the week, causing many housewives quickly to deplete the supplies normally carried by suburban stores. Mr Cook said that in the past eight months 70 men had filled the 31 positions in the outside delivery service, many of them only staying at their jobs for a week. He said that when the heavy rains fell at the beginning of the week some of the bread carters gave notice that they would be sick the following day. “All the time we are compelled to pay men sick pay when they can be off from work for two days without producing a doctor’s certificate the root of the staff problem will remain,” he said. Daily Mercury, February 1, 1951