FRUIT STALL RENTS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 9

FRUIT STALL RENTS

PRICES WELL DOWN

Yesterday the last auction sale of sites for stands for street fruit stalls was conducted by Inspector E. Hazledon, o£ the City Council traffic department. There was only about half the usual attendance of Hindu bidders, and prices also declined by about half. Two factors operated to bring this about. Firstly, this was the last sale of the kind, for after the end of March street fruit stalls will be a thing of the past, the City Council having decreed that they shall go. The Hindusihave therefore begun to make arrangements to sell from shops. Secondly, trade has declined, and, the street fruit stalls do nothing like the volume of business that they used to do. The prices realised yesterday, compared with those for the corresponding quarter of last year, are giyen in the following table:— . ' . January quarter. ' • 1932. 1033. £ s. d. £ s. d. Tram terminus, Courtenay place 58 0 0 41 10 0 Tory street and Courtenay place 57 10 0' 52 0 0 Vivian street and Cuba street 37 0 0 18 0 0 Garrett street 30 0 0 11 0 0 Ghuznee street 50 0 0 30 10 0 Dixon street 13 17 6 13 17 6 Royal Hotel, Lambton quay 31 0 0 14 10 0 National Hotel, Lambton quay .....' 4G 10 0 11 0 0 Panama street 59 10 0 36 0 0 Featherston street ... 010 0 No bidBowen street 94 0 0 34 0 0 Dispatch Office 94 0 0 33 0 0 Thorndon waiting , shed No bid No bid Emmett street 11 o 0 No bid , Totals 601 17 6 298 7 6