LONDON’S SUPPLIES OF FISH
DISAPPOINTING TRADE. Mr T. J. Dove, clerk and superintendent of Billingsgate Market, in Ins annual report to the City Corporation, stated that trade was disappointing throughout the year. “There was,” he said, “a confident hope that the Jubilee celebrations would result in increased business, but in ppint of fact the reverse was experienced. The habits of the people nave changed, and they are content with a cup of tea and roll and butter when shopping or sight-seeing, in place of the more substantial meal.”
An increase of 550 tons in supplies was recorded, and an increase of £663 in revenue. The total quantity of fish arriving at the market and vicinity was 225,633 tons, of which 202,719 tons were brought by railway vehicles. The total revenue was £49,504. Gales resulted in a fall in waterborne supplies. There was an increase of 3,712 packages of fresh salmon, and a decrease of 159 tons of frozen salmon.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 June 1936, Page 2
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