LIFE AMONG THE PERISHABLES
. L. HIGGINS’S lively talk on the life of a fish retailer which | heard by chance on a recent Thursday made me regret that | had missed the rest of the series on New Zealand fisheries. The fish retailer's day-the term fish-monger seems slightly outdated in this plate glass, stainless stee! age-was graphically described; the rising at five, the round of the marts, the cleaning and preparation of wares, the long hours standing on wet concrete. | was made to feel a little guilty that | had ever thoughtlessly bought the same old fillet of terekihi or groper without, in his words, taking him into my confidence, that in fulfilling my modest requirements | had not always availed myself of the advice of a man who had personally gutted every piece of fish in the shop. Hints, too, on new and more interesting ways of cooking fish would be ours for the asking. Perhaps | had also been guilty of blaming him for high prices, without realising that every price rise is as much a headache to the retailer as to the consumer, May | suggest that this final talk could also be the starting point of a new series, and that in the cause of over-the-counter relationships, the NZBS find us a butcher, a baker, a grocer, and a green-
1 grocer who could present their case as forcefully as Mr. Higgins?
J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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232LIFE AMONG THE PERISHABLES New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 715, 27 March 1953, Page 10
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