On This Day, 14 April 1916

Birmingham Mail

Friday 14 April 1916

HOT CROSS BUNS

BIRMINGHAM MASTER BAKERS’ DECISION

As indicated in the “Mail” a few days ago, the supply of Good Friday buns in Birmingham this year will be very much smaller than usual. In some districts the bakers will not make the buns at all, and where they are made they will not, in the majority of cases, be delivered. Last night, the Birmingham and District Master Baker’s Association considered the question and passed the following resolution: – “That delivery of Good Friday buns be curtailed as much as possible, and that all buns be sold at face value.” The latter condition means that the penny buns will be a penny each and will not be sold at four for 3½d. or seven for 6d.

CALL TO THE COLOURS

SINGLE MEN FROM THE MUNITION FACTORIES

The authorities at Curzon Hall, Birmingham report that single men affected by the operation of the Military Service Act are presenting themselves in satisfactory numbers. Every day the number of absentees is being substantially reduced. At the end of the current month many hundreds of single men now engaged in munition and war equipment factories in the Birmingham district will be released for service with the colours.
The Yeomanry height measurement was to-day reduced by one inch. It is now 5ft 3in.