BAN ON OYSTERS PROPOSED
WELLINGTON PISH RETAILERS (P.A.) WELLINGTON, Feb. 28. ' The Wellington District Fish Retailers’ Association has decided not to sell oysters while the new increased price of them obtains. About 40 retailers and proprietors of fish-and-chips shops at an urgently summoned meeting of the association this evening discussed advice received at midday from the New -Zealand Oyster Distributing Company at Invercargill that the price of oysters would be increased by 4s a ,sack. The meeting decided that it would refuse to accept oysters at the new price as it was against an increase in prices to the public. It adopted unanimously a resolution asking the public and restaurant proprietors to support its decision by refusing to buy oysters. The meeting also declared that it would be against any increase in fish prices generally, that it wished to retain the present prices, and that it would oppose any move made by wholesalers for an increase.
Restaurant proprietors in Wellington will ‘meet to discuss the oyster Question to-morrow.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 116, 1 March 1950, Page 4
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168BAN ON OYSTERS PROPOSED Ashburton Guardian, Volume 70, Issue 116, 1 March 1950, Page 4
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