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Q. What comes next?
A. The wholesale fish shops.
Q. How many of them are there?
A.-Eight.
Q. How do the rents run?
A.-$15, $20, $13, $20, $20, $20, $8, $20.
Q. And what comes next?
A.-The pork stalls.
Q.--How many are there?
A.--Fifty.
Q. How do the rents run?
A.-The rents of the first ten are $15, $13.45, $17.21, $15, $10, $15.86, $1.50, $1.50, $1.50, $4.05.
Q. What comes next?
A.-Vegetables.
Q.-Another lot of vegetable stalls; you have given us one lot.
A.-Those are shops. There are 50 vegetable stalls, and the rents of the first ten are $8, $5, $2.10, $3, $16.25, $15.28, $2.85, $1.50, $1.50, $8.80.
Q. What comes next in your category?
A. Fish stalls.
Q.-How many of these are there ?
A.-Fifty-four.
Q.-And how do the rents run ?
A.-$11, $11, 26, $7, $14.50, $11, $6, $5.05, $12, $10.
Q-Does that exhaust the lot in the Central Market?
A. Yes.
Q-As to the two separate rooms, are they let at a special rate for a special purpose?
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They are let at $32, and $30, for sundries, and two for vegetables at $20 each.
Q. What is the whole rental received from the Central Market?
A.—$3,445.14 was received in June of this year.
Q. When was the last general letting of these stalls?
A. They are let whenever a stall is vacant, Notice is put up at the end of the
month at the Market where it is vacant and teuders asked for.
Q. Is there much competition for a meat stall ?
A.-It depends a good deal upon where the stall is. Sometimes stalls will go better than at other times. For instance at Chinese feasts pork stalls will go very well. Then it depends very much upon the situation of the stall in the Market.
Q. Is there much giving up?
A.—Not a great deal considering the number of stalls. There are several stalls vacated each month perhaps in the Central Market.
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