MUNICIPAL MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 32, 7 February 1908, Page 3

MUNICIPAL MARKETS.

TO TUB EDITOR. Sir, — Your cone^pondont Joseph Go? 3 and others are advocating a municipal market in order that the iioonlo may have cheap fish, fruit, and vogeiabics; but I fear they aro trusting to a broken reed. Country settlers will not come in, nay, from Otaki, where the bulk of tho vegetables como from, or from Nelson and Llawkes Bay, where we draw our supply of fruit from, and stay all day in a market selling retail quantities, unless they get a better price than they do wholesale at tha fruit mart, so it will be no gain to the hotclkceper and boardinghousekeeper. Wi> havo already had a maiket in Wellington, whore thr Royal Oak now stand', alto a fish market near the wharf, but both wero failures : and with a gr>-»at many ratepayers 1 consider that rho City Council should not emuark in a' speculation that has such poor prospects, especially with borrowed money If yon object to shopkeepers getting a fair profit how are lh e y to pay the hea>y rates* thai arp a!rparly imposed upon thnn? What with hawkpr.s and Chinamen, there is not much margin in tho fruit trade of Wellington. — I am, etc , A RATEPAYER. ■Wellington, sth Feb>uary, ISOB