CITY FISH MARKET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18347, 13 March 1923, Page 6

CITY FISH MARKET.

BUSINESS REORGANISATION.

; NEW ' MANAGER APPOINTED. » SUPPLIES FROM THREE TRAWLERS The decision of the Auckland City Coun- ■ cil to appoint Mr. P. A. Munro as mani ager of the Municipal Fish Market, and I to take the whole cf the output of Messrs. . Munro Brothers' trawler Cerfib, was announced by the Mayor, Mr. J. H. Gunson, yesterday afternoon, following a meeting of the Markets Committee of the City Council. : Mr. Gunson said that for some timia! past the principal returns from the business had not been satisfactory, and the ' committee had advised the council that , this was primarily duo to the fact that the two trawlers owned by the council could not mairtain a sufficient or regular 1 supply. It would be remembered, said • Mr. 'Gunson, that the council recently . refused an offer for the purchase of t)ie , whole undertaking, being of opinion that it was in the public interest that it should ' remain in the business. Since then the position had been fully investigated, with the result that at t)he last meeting of the council the committee fraa .given authority, first, to appoint a new manager, and, secondly, to contract for the output of Messrs. Munro Brothers' trawler. " The committee to-day entered into an agreement by which Mr. P. A. Munro becomes manager of the market, and into a further agreement with Munro Brothers to take t/he output of their trawler," said Mr. Gunson. " This will mean a reorganisation of market conditions, and the output of the third trawler, in conjunction with that of the council's two boats, will piovide a regular supply of fresh fish for the council's shop ana for the retail distributors whom the council supplies. There is now every hope that the business will be placed on a mors satisfactory footing. The retail distributors viho have to depend on the council for their supplies will be {.ble to obtain daily supplies of fresh fish, which have not always been avaiVable, and the council will not now experience short mpplies for its own shop." The Mayor explained tihat the new trawler would be ready for service in about a week, and the three boats would be entirely under the control of the new management. Mr. Gunson said that the prices in Auckland were the lowest anywhere obtaining in Australia or New Zealand, and this fact and the desire to maintain an adequate,' and cheap supply to the people had led t/he council to continue and enlarge the business rather than accept the recent offer, which would have lf.t it out without any loss. The business, therefore, from the council's standpoint, was essentially a public service, and that fact alone 'had induced the council to re-establish the business on a better footing.