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PM had her in stitches

19.01.10

LINDA SMITH

January 20, 2010 06:51am

COLES employee Natalie Chapple got more than she bargained for when she cut her finger and ended up in hospital.

While she was waiting to have stitches on her finger, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd toured the Royal Hobart Hospital with Premier David Bartlett and stopped to chat to the gobsmacked 23-year-old from Brighton.

"How are ya going," Mr Rudd said to Miss Chapple as he mingled with hospital staff, jokingly adding that he would come back later to help give her some stitches.

During a chat with nurses about conditions on the ward, Mr Rudd recounted stories from the days when he worked two nights a week as a wardsman at Canterbury Hospital where he once had to chase a runaway patient down the street.

Then, true to his word, he went back to see Miss Chapple, who told Mr Rudd and Mr Bartlett she had sliced a "fairly thick layer" off her finger while using a meat slicer at the Sandy Bay store.

Source: Tasmania Mercury

Wholesale Scottish Bakery Auction

11.01.10

(MMD Newswire) January 11, 2010 -- The entire bakery operation of Hunters Home Bakery, Glenrothes in Fife is to be sold in an auction conducted by Pro Auction Several interesting lots will go under the hammer, which will appeal to a wide range of craft and plant bakeries alike.

The sale will include commercial vehicles, dividers, mixers, moulders and depositors along with complete savoury pie manufacturing equipment. In addition to the equipment, the auctioneers will also offer Tom Chandley Ovens, retarder provers, Rondo pastry brakes and confectionery equipment at the plant. According to market research group Plimsoll, smaller bakery companies are increasing sales at three times the rate of larger competitors, delivering profitability that is four times as high. Given the amount of used food machinery available from this bakery sale, Pro Auction are expecting a good attendance by these up and coming smaller bakery companies. In addition to the bespoke bakery equipment, a number of lots will appeal to the food manufacturing industry generally and will include items such as a Trief high speed slicer, Multivac and HFE thermoforming machines, Ilpra speedy tray sealer, fast pack flow wrapping machine, digital scales, insectocutors, Rational combination ovens, Falcon Bratt pan, vacuum packing machines, metal detectors, Mainca Vector um300 slicers, Endoline carton sealer, table top vacuum packers, Witt gas mixers sinks and hand wash basins, racks and trolleys, complete refrigeration packs, fork lifts and hand pallet trucks. Lots that will be of particular interest to the smaller bakers, and which are manufactured by leading equipment suppliers throughout Europe include rounders, bun, divider, BDMs, Pinners french, stick/baguette, bake, off, oven, deck, rack, setter, speed, Hobart, industrial, planetary, spiral, twin, arm, mixers conveyors, croissant, production, lines, sheeters, extruders, cake, slicers, chocolate enrober, fondant, confectionary, donut, fryers, jammers, glazers, multi, head, pneumatic, pumps, sealers, metal, detectors, flow-wrapper, plant and flour silos.

Source: MMD Newswire (press release)