UNCONVENTIONAL MARKET
CHINESE AND HINDUS. EARLY MORNING BARGAINING. Oblivious of tho traffic rules of a modern civilised city, and intent on their Celestial and Oriental ways of bargaining, many dusky sons of China and India congregate on a portion of Station Road, Newmarket, early every morning. Hero the Chinese growers bring the products of their gardens to be sold to their fellow countrymen or to the numerous Indian hawkers. Tho whole scene to be seen any morning in the week is a fascinating study of Buying and selling. It savours of an animated Eastern market with tho verbosity of Billingsgate. Carts are scattered everywhere, and at all. angles across the road—cars of every description. Then there are the barrows of the Indian hawkers. The bargaining is always spirited and the air fairly buzzes with jabbering. Large quantities of fruit are exchanged before the majority of Aucklanders arc yet astir. Mention of this unconventional market was made at a meeting of the Newmarket Borough Council last evening, when a member pointed out that the congestion of traffic was dangerous and against all rules. "The carts stick out 'at aJ! angles," he said, _ ''and some day there will be a bad accident."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18941, 12 February 1925, Page 10
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