MUNICIPAL PISH MARKET

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2539, 13 August 1915, Page 9

MUNICIPAL PISH MARKET

SHOULD IT BE CLOSED DOWN? It is stated that uot since its inception lias the municipal iisli market in Jervois Quay paid its way, and the Question now .before a sub-committee of the jMarkots Committee of the City Council is whether the enterpriso should he closed down altogether or be reorganised. It ij, admitted that reorganisation might olfect some improvement, but the question appears to bo whether the council would be justified at such a time in venturing a- lot of money in _the erection of a proper fish market, where fishermen could sell their own iisli. or, 011 the other hand, had the council the right to become shopkeepers, and run shops in various parts of tho city as adjuncts to the market. 'J. lie latter idea would, it is thought, involve an expenditure of • between £20,000 and £25,000. The number of suppliers of fish to the market has fallen awav from between 60 and 70 to under 30. chiefly during the last year. Tho control of tho fish industry is not so easy a tiling as it looked to some members of the' City Council, and can only bo contemplated at tho risk of a large expenditure, and than the issue would, it is believed, be doubtful. Professor Prince, tho • Director of Canadian Fishories, was quito opposed to the notion of municipal trawlors and markets, considering our population too limited and scattered to make it pay 'interest on tho money that would have to bo expended. . The whole matter of the fish maxket will probably come up for discussion at the next meeting of the City Council.