STREET FRUIT STALLS.
BAD BUSINESS REPORTED. LOW BIDS FRbM HINDUS. •, (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) ! WELLINGTON", this day. During the past few years the City Council has received good rents for street fruit-stall stands, which it lets quarterly. The bids for stands for; the current quarter, however, show a .very, decided slump. , It is stated by the Hindus, who almost exclusively bid for these stands, that they have not been doing at all well. They attribute this to the lygh price of fruit generally and to the very, broken weather this,summer. ..It is considered possible, however, that there may be some agreement among the Hindus whereby they are not, bidding so keenly against one another as in-the T>. total amount received for the stands this quarter is £188 12/0, against b>z2. in the corresponding quarter last year, -I
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 12
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136STREET FRUIT STALLS. Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1930, Page 12
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