PURVEYING FOODSTUFFS AT OPUNAKE.

Taranaki Daily News, 16 July 1929, Page 2

PURVEYING FOODSTUFFS AT OPUNAKE.

(To the Editor), Sir, —Will you kindly allow me space in your columns to correct any wrong impression which your Opunake correspondent’s version of my complaint to the local Town Board may give rise to. The subject matter of my letter was: —(1) That vendors of eatables from other

towns were allowed on our football grounds at a recent match to sell hot meat pies; (2) that vendors of fruit are allowed to sell their fruit, on the green in the main street; ’(3) and that the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union provide and sell luncheon at the saleyards on sale days. None of these, so far as I can gather, pay the board a license, while eating houses established here have to do so, in addition to rent, lighting and rates. The complaint was written and sent as a matter of principle, and was in fairness to others in the same line as myself, and the “keen competition” mentioned by your correspondent did not enter into it. Neither did I complain of “marts and competitions” in the streets, as your correspon- J dent’s notes allege.—l am, etc., ; ELIZA A. MATHEWS. I Opunake, July 13. ,