Last Day of Mart Which Handled $50,000,000 Worth of Trade a Year: New Building Opening Scenes of frenzied and somewhat disorderly bidding, the smell sh of all varieties, and a business which is active the whole year Found present a vivid picture each morning of the week at the old Fish 'Market on the Nantao Bund. Fhher- place. men and merchants slip and slide over dead and sometimes. sotting {ish ay they bid and barter daily for the $50,000,000 worth that is Imported into' Shanghai every year. The revelling conditions are very high sanitary type facilities and up-to-date" business methods will endeavour to eradicate when the New Fish Market on Point Island opened on Monday.
Nevertheless a considerable amount of opposition has been received from over twelve of the fish hongs, who prefer the old order with its chances of higher profits to the new, which is to attempt to adjust the exirerses of supply and demand and to increase both "production and distribution; this pandering to the customers, they {eol, will result ina decline in the profits, Shortly after five o'clock every. morning, the old fish market, situated at the junction of the Freud: and Chinese Bunds, begins to, show signs of activity. As dawn breaks. the rst rays. of sunlight play about a veritable forest of masts, as a native fishing fleet of between sixty and seventy ocean-going junks is seen to have clustered around" the wharf edge: each junk when "aes are good, Is Inden to capacity with all varieties of native fs
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