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stating a little incident that has just come under
my own observation. I had occasion a few days
ago to go to a small baker's shop in one of the back
lanes of Kingston, where the trade was evidently
with the poorer folk, and noticing some Standard
bread on the counter I asked how the sale of it was
doing. The baker's wife said, "Well, sir, at first
we did very well; indeed, I may say are still doing
so, but there is perhaps a little falling off now."
"Why is that?" I remarked. "I think it is for two
reasons," she said; "one is that at first there was
of course the novelty, but the other is that many of
the women say that the children like it so much
and eat so much that they are afraid they cannot
afford to go on with it!" I mentioned this to a
baker well known to most people in Surbiton, and
his remark was, "Quite true, sir, that is my own
observation, too." There is one point to remember:
"If the Standard bread you buy is not nice, it is
not Standard bread."
Sanitary Work.
In connection with the Surveyor's Department
and in addition to the usual work and to that
provided for in the annual estimates, the following
works have been carried out:—
The streets made up under the Private Street
Works Act, 1892, are:—Lenelby Road, Tolworth
Park Road, Tolworth Road, St. Matthew's
Avenue, and Crane's Park Avenue, in all of which
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