THE MARKETS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXX, Issue 62, 10 September 1910, Page 6

THE MARKETS.

TO IHB EDI'XOE. Sir, — I think it is nearly time the City Council let us have something definite about municipal markets, as the present markets of Wellington are a disgrace to the city. Take the fish market in Allenstreet. Not two yards away are stables for three or four horses, carts pull in arid out (for loading and unloading) on the concrete floor where the fish is exposed for sale. No matter how often this place is washed down a certain amount of manure must bo on the ground. I quite agree with "Retailer's" remarks re the ]?ruffc Market and no auction. The auctioneers have the price fixed for nearly all imported fruit, 'etc., and they "trot" up the price to within a penny or threepence of the fixed price, and if lucky enough to get a bid knock it' down quickly. Buying vegetables in sacks is very unsatisfactory. I ■ will guarantee that in nine out of ten brands of vegetables, you will find a few good on the top of the sack and the rest rubbish spelt with a big R. When you are "taken in" like this and complain, the only redress you get is : "Where were your eyes when you bought it?"— l am, etc., KILBIRNIE. Wellington, Bth September, 1910.