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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1949, 4 December 1906, Page 4

A few months ago at the instigation of the Trades and Labor Council the question of establishing municipal markets was a live subject in the Wellington City Council. At that time one of the councillors, Mr Trenor, was about to make a tour of Canada and Great Britain, and the Council authorised him to make inquiries regarding the working of municipal markets in the Old Country, llis inquiries convinced him that the establishment of municipal markets hero should not bo regarded in a favourite light, if there was no prospoct of making them more successful institutions than those which have come under his notico abroad. In conversation with a pressman Mr Trevor said : *' As far as I could see the majority of municipal markets at Home arc white elephants. In Aberdeen, for instance, you find somo of them paying l:[d per cent., but others are not paying at all; they arc simply shops.’ 1 Mr Trevor was oonvinedd that the purely municipal markots in the Old Country were not a success, and ho counsels no action being taken for their establishment in Wellington.