OLD CHARTER “CALLED UP”

Hawera Star, Volume L, 7 March 1931, Page 16

OLD CHARTER “CALLED UP”

Fishermen to Resist Council

JpOLLOWIZSTG 1 a proposal to remove the fish market from the beach , near the Palace Pier to some other site, I a battle is brewing between Brighton’s fishermen and the town council. i The fishermen, whose ancestors! founded the tiny village which has grown into Brighton, claim that an ' ancient charter gives them this stretch ; of beach. The beach and the charter,! they say, have been handed down from j father to son. j

I spoke to fishermen, said a “Sunday Dispatch” correspondent, and told them that people complain that their market spoils the beauty of the front. One old fisherman with gold earrings and a blue jersey replied: ‘ ‘My father and his father before him fished from this beach and mended their nets here. Our families have stood here-for hundreds of years, and the beach is ours by right of law and inheritance. “The beauty of the front matters

On the other hand, the council feels that the time has come when the market should be moved from one of the most popular parts of the front.

much less to us than our livelihood. Brighton grew from this beach, and we fishermen are the only people who can call Brighton ‘home.’ ”