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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11684, 13 July 1912, Page 5

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SYDNEY'S MOVE.

.ectp.ic Telegraph—Copyright.]

,P E p. Pp.ess Association.) J July 13, at 9.40 a.m. Sydney, July 13. irt>-r:m report of the Food Com- ' recommends that the exclusive ,i (ornluoting metropolitan fish j Ik» vested in the City Council, h:u consignments to private ;ur =;ile in Sydney be not per-

| Council will consider the prac[v 11 purchasing fish outright the catchers on the fishing .itiil reselling it in the city hnrlw ..n such conditions as are | fsr>xl:ent.

> :n he regretted that the Tnuni-i-s liave not so far established irk- r>. but 1 understand that »llini:t:m City Council is moving matter" (says the Secretary to >r:nt> Department in his annual i :i::i convinced that the esI'eiit of such markets would have v-hi effect on the fishing indnsi • wi.nld enable the public to tvr and cheaper supplies of fisli._ pn ii'.fat's rock oyster beds in rth. bfttt'een May Ist and' July >t war. yielded 4782 sacks, a salt' h.-in'j: found at 12s 6di a-, i.l a profit of £565 was made-. ; t<> rhe heavy demand a higher .ii! i i ;isitv be obtained, but it li •iire ot the department to sell Ir.vt to consumers as far as this ! • iii l . Last season it was found

ro the limited supply, some wtii» cmld not obtain all they nviv with individuals :it [ii<- department's depot !> tor themselves, hue really for r. whrim thev resold at a higher I: ir U loiintl that tliis 'practice tlif department will- arrange •:i~ tiiwn itself at the house for [ln- purchasers say- they are . ;i' 'i if this does not stop the :> *■:: i r steps will be taben.-