THE FISH MARKET PROJECT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 18675, 3 October 1922, Page 9

THE FISH MARKET PROJECT.

TO THE EDITOR. Sib— I see that the City Council has again' referred tho question of a Fish Market back to a. committee, and I think this is the wisest plan it can follow until the committee is composed of practical fishermen and good business men. What use would a market be at the foot of Hanover street or any other street on the water front? Is it expected that women wn, po down to the waterfront to buy a bundle of soles for Is or 2s or any other fish, and carry them through the town, not wrapDed uo bub exposed to the gaze of all and sundry? Those who expect this would be sadly disappointed. W lo * V* wanted is a retail market between High street and Stuart street, where the people can get their fish at a reasonable rato and have them wrapped up to take home. If the City Fathers could see their way to give the fishermen something like that at a reasonable rental there might be a chance of tho City Council making a market pay its own way, but not otherwise. I am speiking from practical knowledge as I was for 16 years in the retail trade and for 15 years a fisherman. Let me assure the City Council that a wholesale municipal market would be a "white elephant" on its hands, and would only make it better for tho people who run. the wholesale fUli trade at present and make it worse for the fishermen who sent to the market.' There would not bo very many of those fishermen nor would; they send their fish for very long. We do not want a lot of expensive "dead heads" in the way of inspectors nor do we want harassing rules a.nd expensive _ charges. Otherwise the public, which will have to foot the bill, will bo in a worse position in regajrd to cheap fish than now.—l am, etc.. Practical Fishkruait. Mansford Town, September 30. PROHIBITION LAW. TO THE EDITOB. SIE, —Permit me to refer "Fair Play" to section 62 of the Licensing Act, 1918, which distinctly says that under prohibition one can neither sell nor manufacture intoxicating liquor without rendering one's self liable to a penalty. You, sir, have on several occasions, drawn attention to this fact. To say that a person may lawfully manufacture intoxicating liquor, if prohibition shoulcT be carried, is to say what is untrue—l am, etc., Mac, September 50.