CORRESPONDENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 56, 6 March 1877, Page 2

CORRESPONDENCE.

A WEEKLY MARKET FOR NELSON. To the Editor ov the ' Evening Mail.' Sir — Why has Nelson not got a market place and a weekly market ? Mrs Grundy says it is because certain persons think themselves interested in preventing it. Even if it were to their interest (which is more than doubtful) the interest of a few should not prevail against the welfare of the many. What are the City Council about? It is a part of their duty to provide a market place for the benefit of the trade of the town. Is there another town of like importance under the dominion of her Most Gracious Majesty without a market place? Is it that the people of Nelson do not know what an advantage a weekly market is to a town-^how it draws and makes trade. It is but little use having Horticultural Shows to stimulate production iv .less a market is at hand to dispose of the

products when produced. If there were a market weekly fruit growers could send their fruit in with a certainty of selling it, while dealers wishing to speculate could see at once what quantity there was in the market, and govern themselves accordingly. It would be easy to fill a column of your paper with the advantages of a market. Any one who has seen the country people wearily dragging their produce round from house to house on Saturdays, and not finding the customers who perhaps are looking for them must acknowledge its importance at once. If it were not an advantage, why does every, market town at home puff itself up on this necessary institution?— l am, &c, Traveller. ._ P.S. — Not only should we have a weekly market, but a quarterly cattle fair.