A PUBLIC MARKET.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 15, Issue 1192, 30 September 1870, Page 2

A PUBLIC MARKET.

Sib, —l desire to draw public attention to the convenience which a market would afford for the disposal of such articles as eggs, butter, cream, fruit, flowers, fowls, fish, vegetables, bacon, cheese, meat, wood, &c. It would give many a chance of competing for town 'custom who are unable to come daily a long distance and the^n hawk about the streets. Prices would be cheapened and equalised by bringing producers and consumers into direct communication, and a much larger choice and variety is to be found in an open and central market. People from different parts are brought together, and can comr pare experience and exchange friendly greetings, and, doubtless, a little stir and business would be created in the town; the auctioneers might hold sales of corn, hay, potatoes; &c, all of which would help to bring people together. I would suggest Clive-square as a suitable place, and that Wednesdays and Saturdays are convenient days for enabling people to supply themselves. lam sure much benefit to all will result from establishing a market. Fruit often rots on the ground in the country, and .yet we have to pay sixpence for half-a-dozen bad peaches in town.: —Yours, &c, A Countryman. Sept. 23, 1870.