PRICE OF FISH
(To the Editor.)
Sir, —I read in a recent issue of "Tho Post" that the Mayor of Wellington has suggested that soinothing should be done to try and place fish on the open market at a reasonable price, and that a public meeting should be convened. I notice again in "The Post 5' of the 16th insfc, a lengthy report by Mr. A. Hefford, on the matter of cheapening the price of fish. This report, to my mind, counts for nil. First of all, Mr. Hefford suggests an auction market at Island Bay. That would not make the slightest difference. Wo have a fish market in town now where fish is auctioned.
I do not want to bo a critic, but I have a suggestion to put to pur Mayor and Mr. Heflord, and that is to convene meetings among tho fishermen themselves, to get at the point of placing the fish on the market. These meetings should be called at Island Bay, Makara, Paremata, Picton, and French Pass, and I am sure that if the City Council would give the fishermen of these localities a suitable place in which to dispose of their fish, then fish would not be tho price it is to-day. I do not suggest that the market be on the foreshore, but in the centre of the town. What a fine market that piece of land in Kent terrace, between Vivian street and the Basin Eeserve, at present shrub-covered, would make. Again, the council could acquire some of that land from Cuba street to Cambridge terrace, and put up a decent market; this, I claim, would be in a central position. People will aot buy at out-of-the-way • places.
My suggestion is that the council erect tho market in a suitable place, and let the fishermen have stalls at a reasonable rent. Then the fish will come down in price.. In no other way can tho price be brought down. I may state that I have been in touch with some of the fishermen at French «Pass and Picton, and those gentlemen would bo only too pleased to retail their fish at a reasonable price if they could got a decent place in which to dispose of it. —I am, etc., TV. MOEEISON.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 8
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380PRICE OF FISH Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 49, 26 August 1926, Page 8
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