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to ehov vhat dangers are likely to £0110\1 in the vake of this dLk-coneddered
emb-argo vhkch has been placed upon the free trade of the Colony.
If that great
safety-valve Opsorto 1tl to be domna'ted by this Corrunittl!le , if Greece , It&ly and
ultimately S~ln are to be controlled by one sell er, wha t becomes of the other
fifteen to twenty shippers who have formed valuable foreign connections and vho
are r elegated to one receiver and
seller, a nd vhoee cargoes viII very probably
have no equ ality of sa l e?
Aga in, f or the sake of areu ment, Messrs. Haves & Oo, , Lt .d, ,
Bend annu ally
1,2~,OOO quintals of codfish, (leavi ng .lOO,ooo quintals for Brazil and West
Ind1e '"1!1 consumption) and at present prices t.he se are vor-th 1!18 pe r quinu.l fo r
cost, f r eight and insurance or Eo8Y tventy_t\lo million of dollars, to whom does
the com:dssion of 3 pe r cent, a moun t i ng to six hundr-ed and fifty thousand dollars
go ? I s it not reas onable to suppose th&t Hr . Haves vill be given this huge SUI1l.
a nnually?
Are the exp or-t er-s to Europe of S;jY eight or nino hund r ed thousand quiAt8b
to be called upon to hAnd OYer aga i nst their \li11 to t.~e 'Whoeentr-Ibute 8hi?­
aent. e of say 300 ,00 quintals a Ooeafeefon of 3 per cent, aggr e ga t i ng say
$480,000 a nnuall y 88 their contribution to....arde %650,000? Ag~ln , the Advi s or y
Board is l ar gely compos ed of units of the six who hav e come to ~n ag ree!llttnt \lith
Mr. Hawes and one of them is the Agent a nd purchaser of one
of the largest Brazil
buye rs . The Advisory Board has requested holders of fish to hand in a note of the
ebocke of fisb hold by them. If don e it is r easonable to expe ct that this buyer t s
principal, with a knov'ledge of \lhat each firm holds and of t he ageree:ate stock,
viII be i nfluence d 1n his bids for ca rgoes by this know'ledge aff ord ed him .
\.11t h regards to my O'WJl ahfpm ent.s i n the a ve r age of y~arl'l, five-:>1xths of
\llul.t I send to Eur-ope 1s consigned.