SALE OF FISH

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 65, 16 March 1940, Page 8

SALE OF FISH

GISBORNE PROTEST

RIGHT TO BUY AT WHARF

(By Telegraph—Press Association.)

GISBORNE, March IS,

A spirited protest against the action of the Government in prohibiting the, sale of fish over the wharf was made last night at the largest public meeting held in Gisborne tcr a long time. A resolution, carried, with one dissentient, stated that the action had-' de* prived workers of regular supplies of cheap fresh fish and appealed to the Government to restore to the people the right to buy fish at the wharf. '

Mr. F. E. Wilson said that the action in regard to the fish industry had brought home to the people the effects of the Government's policy of food control... . . ... :

t Mr. G. Dunn, representing the Freezing Workers' Union, said thai; his , union, feeling that: ah in j ustice had been done, had ventilated its views in the Press and then had- held a stopwork meeting and decided hdt to buy fish until a satisfactory agreement bad been reached with ; the Government No agreement having been-reached, -he was present at the meeting under instructions from the union. The union was prepared to stand or fall by it» attitude that the present system* hi selling fish was unjust. By a Ministerial blunder an injustice was being | done, and the union insisted - : ttfat it be removed. He pointed out that fish at the wharf had cost 2£da pound, ?but in the shops it was lOd.to 12dv;