LICENSED FRUIT STANDS.

NZ Truth, Issue 701, 23 November 1918, Page 3

LICENSED FRUIT STANDS.

Dear "Truth," — As the Wellington public well know, our City Council 'has licensed stands on street corners for the sale of fruit, and. I wish to bring under your notice how highly undesirable it Is that such a practice should be allowed to continue. It is a definitely established fact that the wind m the street carries a large quantity of dust and germs which must injuriously affect goods exposed for sale. In all European and most Asiatic countries the sale of foodstuffs m thoroughfares is an offence against the law, yet our city fathers m their wisdom are not only condoning: the practice but are encouraging- it by selling- stands over filthy gutters for the sale of one of the most important articles of food. It is to ba hoped that the present regrettable epidemic has taught a never-to-he-forgotten lesson and that we will b^ave no more selling of fruit on our str-eet corners. — Yours, etc., i "PUBLIC HEALTH."