SYDNEY’S MARKETS

Evening Star, Issue 19994, 11 October 1928, Page 4

SYDNEY’S MARKETS

A PICTURESQUE INSTITUTION. For more than 100 years Sydney's mar kets have been given up onu day a week oniy to retail stallholders, ny way oi experiment they are now to bo handed over to them three days in the week. " Paddy's Market," as it is known when it is given over to the retailers on Fridays, is one of Sydney's most popular institution?, especially at night. There is no other place in Sydney like it. There, amid a strange human medley of dealers which gives it an exotic touch, and amid crowds of people of all classes and ages, one can buy anything from the proverbial needle to the anchor, and can cat almost anything. Whether “Paddy’s Market” will lose something of its spell, and, incidentally, something of its smell under the new order, remains to be seen. It is to be hoped not. Sydney, without this popular institution on Friday nights, would be something like ‘ Hamlet ’ without the melancholy Dane. It offers a truly wonderful study of humanity. Rubbing shoulders with' people who run the whole gamut of the democratic working order one finds many smartlydressed men and women who have come along in aristocratic motor cars to pick up something cheap in tho way of pot plants or vegetables or what not. Some of the stallholders there have amassed quite a lot of money. One of them is to-day a big Sydney business man and an owner of racehorses.