IMPORTANT NOTICE
EASTER HOLIDAYS,
We clot-c on Friday and Saturday, open 7 to 9 on Easter Monday morning, and close on Tuesday, Anzac D'ay, at 1 o'clock. Before purchasing elsewhere call at BARTON AND TRENGROVE, corner Stafford and Princes streets, and get a, delicious piece of Corn Beef or Corn Pork, Ox Tongue, or a prime Roast of Beef. Wc have sufficient to supply 5.000 families for Easter. Do not bo disappointed elsewhere, but call at the House of Quality and you are sure to be well treated. Our email goods excel all others. Late night Thursday next.—[Advt.]
" Our Own " wires from Christchurch : The question of a, cheaper iisli supply has been discussed here lately, and the fishermen aro now taking steps to meet, the public demand. Tho secretary of the Lvttelton Fishermen's Co-operative Association writes: "Mr G. M. Thomson, of Dunedin, recently paid the fishermen's catches were arbitrarily limited to keep up prioos. We wish "to let tho public know that our catches are not, limited, and wo send tho bulk of our fish to Christchurch. This host few weeks most of our fish, which was caught over-night and delivered to the market in the morning, was not sold at all, but simplv carted round to the. destructor. It is a shamethat such good, wholesome food should be absolutely wasted in such a manner, considering the lv K h cost of living at present. It is not our fault that the public do not got cheap fish. It is tho practice of coit-iin class of people in Christchurch to buy the fish up when it is cheap, and freeze, <ind firing it out in 'dribs and drabs,' always charging the public top price for it. 'J lie Chwstchureh City Council have been discussing the advisability of opening a retail fish" shop in the City, and they ha.ve made no headway, and are not likely to. Fish is a luxury, and such, a ridiculously high price 'is charged for it in Christchurch that tho working classes cannot bur it, and most of the poorer classes hardly know the task? of a. irood fresh flounder. This week, if possible, we aro going to open a. fish shop m Colombo street, retailing our fish to tho public at, wholesale prices, sending the fish up in the mormntrs from our boats, which will be, mostly fishing at night time. We will reduce the price- of fish from 50 to 75 per cent, by cutting out the middlemen's lvg profit." At tho Port Chalmers Police Court this morning, before Mr John Watson. J.P.. two first offenders who did not appear were convicted and fined 10s respectively. _ A. handsome addition to the Belgian 'relief fund has been made as the result of the sale of 159 acres of land at Rukuhia, donated to the fund by Dr Porritt. of Wanganui. The proceeds of the sale amounted to £7lB 9s 3d, to which has to be added a Government £ for £ subsidy. The Chief Justice gave judgment to-day in a family dispute between Joseph Edwards and Maud Trout, of Auckland, plaintiffs, and Ada Nott, of Falmerston, defendant, regarding money lent or given. Sir Robert Stout heard the caso tine?
The latest ' Gazette' gjvea th» pomiW tion of Greater Auckland- at 119,336} Wellington, 75,085; Christchurch, 88,798; and Dunedin, 68,547. On the basis of those figures the death rate for March was heaviest in Wellington, being- 1.02 per 1.000 of population, as compared with 0.68 in Auckland, 0.78 in Christchurch, and 0.84 in Dunedin. TJio number of deaths from infantile paralysis (according to the 'Cazotto') in March wan on!v four for the whole of the Dominion, o'f which three occurred in Wellington and one in Auckland.
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Evening Star, Issue 16092, 18 April 1916, Page 4
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