LONDON MARKETS

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 40, 17 February 1931, Page 7

LONDON MARKETS

SOMETHING NEW FOR ;. SHOPPERS

Housewives who do their own marketing and a great number do choose their own meat, vegetables, etc., daily—will be interested to know of the. opening to-mor-row of London Markets, Ltd. This company has erected a block o£ twenty-five shops in Bond street (off Willis street and adjoining Nimmo's) and here shoppers may make their home food purchases under the one roof, and yet be certain of buying fresh gooda cheaply. Markets such as these are no novelty in. America,. Australia, or England, but London Markets, Ltd., ie the first of its kind in New Zealand. Incidentally, its building is the first to be erected under the new health regulations, and has given entire satisfaction to the Health authorities, being exceptionally well lit and ventilated. The land on which the markets stand was bought at a very low price, and the rents charged run from fifty shillings a week, ■which it is considered gives a minimum of overhead expenses and should allow tenants (who have taken up shops very readily) to sell their wares cheaply. The fish is to come direct from 'the trawlers into the markets every morning; poultry, which has never seen a freezer, will arrive daily from the country, where it is killed and dressed on the farm; Marlborough and Hutt Valley gardens will supply the vegetables, and stone fruit will come from Otago Central and Marlborough. While the title of "markets" has been given to the new shops there will be no auctioneering—single articles may be bought as in an ordinary store. !Rest rooms and a telephone will be available to shoppers, and tea may be hnd at a. small charge. At "Mis. B's stall" pickles, jams, sauces, children's clothes, and other things which the farmer's wife makes so well will be for sale, this being a definite effort by farmers' wives to help their menfolk through difficult financial times, and a movement which will doubtless receive good public support. Sweets, home-made cake shops, etc., are also to be found in the new Bond street block. The Melbourne City Council runs such markets in its suburbs, and statistics show that 150,000 people have passed through them on a Friday. In these days of reduced salaries, when many are making certain that their coat is cut more exactly to their cloth, London Markets with their central position and fresh goods at low prices should be a distinct boon to householders. The following are amongst the businesses opening to-morrow: —Bond street Meat Company, Mrs. B.s stall, Direct Fish Supply, Economy Hosiery and Underwear Stall, Economy Meat Stores, Home-made Cake Shop, Market Sweet Stall, Pender and Knight (fruiterers), Market Sweet Stall, Macduff's, Ltd., A. White (fancy goods), and G. Will (cooked dainties).