DELIVERY OF MARKET PRODUCE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5247, 5 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

DELIVERY OF MARKET PRODUCE.

To the Editor : Sir, — Can you, through your paper, inform me whether, if garden produce is ordered by a shopkeeper can it be delivered to that person only without obtaining a permit from the Market lessee ? — J am, itc,

A SUJlSCIMKKIt. [No fee is charged in such a case ; but it ii found iu practice that many, under the pretence of delivering a dozen of cabbages or so to a shopkeeper's ordor, take advantage of the opportunity and go from house to house with tho remainder of the load, supplying families with small quantities of garden produce, or stablekeepors with a sheaf or two of greenstuff. The fee charged for permission to go over tho whole of the city with produce i.s only 108. for three months, and for the payment of that sum tho owner of a kitchen garden could hawk such produco through tho city six days but of tho sovon. Were the city authorities to impose a system of tolls upon carts, &c, coming into tho city from the country, which might be done, scoing that no grant is made from the provincial funds to aid tho authorities in keeping in repair tho main thoroughfare in the city, a much larger contribution would bo made by country and suburban produce-growers than would bo the case were they to pay without demur tho charge now imposed of I Us. pi 1 quarter. — Ed.]