WHO PROFITS?

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 911, 2 September 1910, Page 4

WHO PROFITS?

A FISHERMAN ON THE PRICE 01 , ■ - FISH. Writing from, Picton, . Mr. Vaughaa. - Barnsdale, fisherman, follows up previous - communications. on.; the price- 'of;. fish .as ';■;'; -'•'. under:—"lVfeel ; inueh:of-your;spa'ce has : , T .;' been.-giten: to letters I Have;written, but 1.-V-.-iv am-. inducedi to write iigain. "■; My motive , ; ■;' is not for gain to. myself. .alone,; but :we ...;; see that the fishing, enterprise?extends to ''■'-■// adjacent' islands; with, i- no doubt,. a■: ' V ■ '■'' 'that- the. public may -be supplied;-witH- ■■'■;•':' flsh'at treasonable' price. ; The demand in Wellington , must be' greater'than the"; supply, but. this lies,- not:so much 'ia'.,.; the scarcity of .fish, as; the few■ to catch, ". - - them,; and \why ?./. It : . may; bel hard to '■ ■ realise, ■ Jjutf , -' -these, are,; facts:—l . packed-."'- "... 60 dozen garfish; being part ;'of•.';-■; ; : my catch;'for one: sale :this week,:.which.,. ■' sold for Gs: : 6d., -I. ,, being 3s. out'of''pocket'..'---.'--, when expenses 'were paid for -transport, ;.[: etc;, to'say nothing of the '.catching. '■-.'.''' 13utter-fish' of -all sizes sold at iJd. eachj. ' : : mixed fish at a much-less rate. Now, if I could know that it would be a benefit'/. to all, .1; would publish weekly in your v<. '. advertisement. columns the: price.' that, fish are ;sbld i at . by. those .' who- catch.. ' ■. them. It has of ten-''been said,. and. -ia -'. proffered by.vendors, that .tho price ■■■■'-:. chai-ged in' retailing; the. fish is by;reasok;, . tliat fishermen ask so nmch,;but I assure '-.:■.' you that it is only; by catching a^ great.. '.'■'-■; quantity (comparatively) that one;-can. :"■■"'", mako tho barest living, . and ■ of , : course, precarious." ■..-.",'( ; ~; ; ■ ':v.;. ;: ■■.. .'-. : .