DUNEDIN FISH

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13931, 9 July 1919, Page 2

DUNEDIN FISH

I There was something aoimgi in fish at Dumediri tii/is m/oa-naiigt —soweiihing ' thaib "shows a. littla liig-hjt on the quesI tiom so often' asked, "Why is fish j dear and scarce?' A Port Chalmers, fisherman ctaughitl nearly half, a 'ton of grower, amd decided to send it to Chrietchurch, bub lie found that the I railways would not carry it, f*> hs resolved to ipinfc art. oii the l>u/ned"n, market. The Duaiedini fishmongers rejcixed in the exipeiata.tiow. of getting a littia fresh iiah to pint on their 'slabs. To 'their chagrin, however, the . AUKrtiianeer refused, to .sell the fish, J and he gaiVe hi's re&scwi. T!his> was that th<3 Fisherman's. Union, by whom, 1 he „ is appointed, will not allow him to sell fish on Mondays. This t'ion, it iiß sar.d, is in pursuance of a. decree by the union thaib fish, must j noltl be oaugiht on Saturdtiya or Sundays. Two boats air© 'allowed ito go out eacih Friday,; bujt any fish they bring in must not be wniib to the j Dimedin imairkeib- The man who had j.the temerity -to go out and- ontoh . j itJiese grower wais. itihu® effectually , blowked by reguilaitiion', a.nd it' -is sana tih'ait he has also speai v fioally offended tihe rules, in that itt_ w#£ .not! hi® tM^'v; >•• to gio to sea. this lash Friday. Suoii is the posutiion,. ;