PRICE OF FISH
(To the Editor.) Sir,—We hear a great deal about a "fall" in the cost of living, and no doubt there has been a "fall" in tie price of meat and certain other articles of human consumption, but can ydu or any of your readers account for the prices "asked" for fish by retailers? If you send a reporter for a few mornings to the fish market he will find that fish is sold wholesale, as a rule, at from Id to 4d a pound; yet the same fish is sold retail at from two to four times the wholesale prices! There is surely something seriously amiss. At Dunedin fish (I recently foun,d) sells at approximately half Wellington prices. Our newspapers would do well to give us daily the wholesale market prices for fish and pther commodities.—l am, etc., SQUARE-DEAL CONSUMER. 18th March.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 6
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145PRICE OF FISH Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 67, 20 March 1931, Page 6
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