AN OPEN MARKET FOR WELLINGTON.
OT THE EDITOR OF THE MEW ZEALAND MATE. Sir, —Mr Coleman Phillips, in his letter published in your columns, makes a suggestion which is a good enough one provided that the Wellington folk can be pursuaded to make use of a market when one has been erected. Attempts have, however, been previously made to give the inhabitants such accommodation, but they would not use it. It is not very many years ago that the proprietor of an acre at Te Aro, on which were erected structures which would have served very well for the purpose of an experiment, offered his property free of rent for a time in the hope of getting a market established ; but it led to nothing. The people are too inert, or they would soon have a market. One would have thought that Mr Coleman Phillips had been long enough resident here to know that there is a market reserve owned by the city. It is used for various purposes. Some time ago carcases were deposited upon a portion of it, but they were those of unfortunate persons who had departed this life under circumstances of a doubtful nature.—l am, &c., Citizen. Wellington, 14th October.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 764, 22 October 1886, Page 20
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204AN OPEN MARKET FOR WELLINGTON. New Zealand Mail, Issue 764, 22 October 1886, Page 20
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