FISH SUPPLY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXV, Issue 16488, 2 March 1914, Page 8

FISH SUPPLY.

TO THE EDITOR. V _ .' Sir, —We were deeply, impressed b/ the -tale in this morning’s “Times “ headed “ Scarce Fish,” but regret .that* you allow the authors of so remari>ajalo a work of'fiction to remain anohy; mous. ' Hr 7 :- -/ :y\ .i To get to business. We most dis- j tinctlv and emphatically deny- the ac-j cusations of these people, and should I your reporter desire the whole, truth. o:ij any aspect of tho fish supply question we advise him to forsake' liis present dubious mentors and- refer Dim to our address fit 303, Moorliouse Avenue. ’■ ■ ‘ : .V" During the past two years fish .arriv--ing on Saturdays has' been held over for Alonday’s market, but it'-is then' by no means frozen fish, and A-his is the first-occasion on which our, friends, have characterised it as such. iPrevi-j ouslv no fish arrived on Saturday, nights, as it would have been, bad by Monday. Now this fish, ~ copl 'stored' over Sunday, is an invaluable addition to the Christchurch, supply; but’ no one has been sufficiently imbecile or untruthful to accuse us of .auctioning•’ frozen fish on Mondays. " ' ; Regarding the particular: offence' that lias filled a three-quarter column of your paper with romancing, we lean only state that we handled , these fish as per the consignor's instructions, Should we, his agents, have acted' contrary to same we would have rendered ourselves liable to. a substantial penalty, and no municipal officer .would dare to do otherwise than was doneriiy* us. If desired, we will, open our books 1 to your reporter, strictly in confidence. Further, should it be publicly t proved that we have auctioned frozen-', fish we will forfeit £lO to the Christchurch Hospital. , “With regard to your,“sea full. of. fish” theory, we went into thatAvith; you fully some months ago, but ap-! parently it is as hopeless to attempt to instil the truth about'the fish-sup-, ply into a pressman as it would be to hammer tho Binomial Theorem.into * Hottentot. 7 -W Having now given you the whole truth, we trust your reporter, will be fair enough to accept cur invitation and challenge, acknowledge ‘ hiniself wrong, and his informants—anything • he pleases.—We are, etc., '■ W • , P. FERON AND SON. ‘ / 203, Moorhouse Avenue, February -3f