THE SYDNEY FISH MARKET.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXiX, Issue 7730, 25 February 1909, Page 1

THE SYDNEY FISH MARKET.

In view of the suggested municipalisation of the.fish industry m New Zoaland, ii: is interesting to note what if. boiny; done m Sydney. Fish taken strain he i'rem the sea to the Council's market; f!-;ii sold by the Council's own servant.-: ;-,t ens: price (except for dues and :i o per-cent commission), straight to the consumer if he chooses to rke early; fish—as much fish as can be tali on from the sea—as much, perhaps, as the Federal trawler can trawl; the fisherman getting his price, the publictheir supply, unhampered by any os«----bility of rings or trusts as far as the markets are concerned—that is the scheme at which the City Council was aiming m a resolution which it passed last r-'-ht (says the Sydney Mornins Herald of last Tuesday week). It waV resolved—"That no further action Ik taken, to amend the fishing market by laws .m view of a report dated-DecPiir ber 15, 1908, that it would be far better not to amend the existing by-law regulating the fish markets at all; tin' simply to appoint the Council's owr men as agents (whom the Council will pay ,_ charging the consignors of fisl a commission of 5 per cent, together with all dues m connection with the sale of the fish), and notify the fishermen that the Council are prepared 'c receive consignments of fish on thf basis proposed, no further actions t' bo taken to amend the fish-market by laws."