STATE SALE OF FISH.
SUCCESSFUL EXI'EE TVIENT.
» An officer of the Labour Department in! Wellington stated on Tuesday that tha Department had now disposed of the 140,0001b of frozen fish which was com-
mandeered by the Government shortly after the influenza epidemic broke out. The,demands of hospitals throughout tha province had been given. first consideration, and the balance of the fish had then been sold to the retailers to be retailed at not more than lOd per pound in the city and lid per pound in the country' districts. The fish was blue cod, obtained < from the Chatham Islands and frozen, but the fact that it was frozen did net apparently prejudice' the general demand for it. The principal parties concerned in tha transaction, when it was completed, expressed the greatest satisfaction at the businesslike way in which the Department had disposed of the fish.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17038, 20 December 1918, Page 4
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145STATE SALE OF FISH. New Zealand Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17038, 20 December 1918, Page 4
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