BARROWMEN.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19177, 7 December 1927, Page 10

BARROWMEN.

CHEAPER FRUIT t SOME COMMRNTjj, As the outcome of tin fctar council to sell fruit in tl W probable that some of » will make thoir appearance '» ery stringent conditio* J, . laid down," the Mayor (Mr J v Aidier) said yesterday it Cny Council's decisioif men to soli fruit in tlie> Qu •Th» conditions, and the ZtTt charged have been left to u* Committee to set out and tS J the meanwhile we are enaui.i«„ V 11 charges made. by it. W« that farrow rights are sq\d iHwu? «<l ttot M, big pr

Mr A. L. Goldsmith, reorMwiik. the Retail Fruiterers' a representative of . The Pa^Lr 1 day tliat his remarks to the oil on Monday evening were jSu to place the right of the matter W a business man's point of Yie»M,l hj? the point of view of the pE alu? publio wero admitted to could buy as cheaply as there was no neraaity, he cqimEw for barrowmon. There wmT«S thing as a boycott againit M, p„T to agree with Mr Pope's ideu wJj in* the prioe of strawberries »K purely busing reason# they J J strawberries elsewhere. expressed by hia customs it that they considered that the dkta. ment of barrowmen would t»Ta*£in. to the City and they stand the City Council's granting them permission. M» aj? smith considered that the p<Mo in a position to know that tW a "fair go" from the newspapers kept them acquainted,*! the market prices fop da, fa, fe The harrows would ojilv <*u#hrttL competition, and possibly fog obtained by the barrowmen wtfoll l inferior in quality, such as tiU sW would not handle. As to Umi gut ments regarding the retail prices of tomatoe* Mr pointed to tomatoes pnoed Is 6d per lb, and said that %ML? nip. day they would be and 9d per 11> owing totheir MtbUtJ. character. Reference had bst| to a tomato grower who had tit« business as a fruiterer under that there was a hip profit to U tnfc hut, Mr Goldsmith believed,'Sw'tt found it such a payable prooSgi Ho regretted that % trj|fl|to Christchurch was to be depwftojjii by permitting barromnwi.