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the wholesale dealers. Some of these small lans are exporting agents as well as local retailers.
of merchant (6) THE TRAVELLING SALESMEN.-This type does not keep stores in Hong Kong. As regular customers to the wholesale dealer they are in many case travelling representatives of fish stores in Fish may be sold Macao, Kongmoon, Canton, Wuchow, Waichow, etc. to them by the wholesale dealers on credit and money collected at the end of the lunar year.
(7) THE GROCERS OR STALL KEEPERS.—They buy the fish either directly from the wholesale dealers as in the case of fresh fish, from the retail dealers or from the travelling salesmen, and sell them to the
consumers.
The diagram on the following page illustrates how the fish as a com- modity passes from the fishermen to the consumers. A single line with a short arrow indicates that the fish store or retail dealer is simply a branch of the wholesale dealer, and an arrow means one agent is selling the fish to the other agent or simply conveying to or handing over for sale.
It should be borne in mind that this diagram shows only the ordinary There are several route which the fishmongers take to pass on the fish, exceptional cases, however, in which the fish driers or other agents stationed in Aberdeen or other fishery centres in Hong Kong are known to transport fish directly to Macao, Shekki, and Kongmoon for sale without reference to the local wholesale dealers although money has been advanced by the latter.
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