THE PRICE OF FISH
MURMERINGS by disgruntled housewives as they protestingly pay thfe exorbiitant prices demanded for fish bought locally are not calculated to rectify a position, which as we see it is growing into a state of sheer victimisation. Why should the good people of Whakatane be compelled to pay for their fish at rates which we are informed on good authority actually exceed those asked in other towns. Favoured with fishing grounds at our very door, it yet remains impossible for any but the local vendor to buy, sell or seine net the fish within a widely defined area, Fish, possibly the most valuable of ail health-giving foods, teemingly supplied by nature a few minutes from the town's boundaries is yet priced, in the manner of a rare deliaacy. Why! The key to the matter lies in the very regulations which were designed primarily to protect the market from being overdone,, by hawkers and unauthorised persons, but which when applied in the opposite direction run quickly to extremes and give, rise to monopolies which can practically dictate the course of the entire market.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 177, 7 November 1941, Page 4
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185THE PRICE OF FISH Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 177, 7 November 1941, Page 4
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