THE HONEY INDUSTRY.
IMPROVED PROSPECTS. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) WELLINGTON, this day. The recent spell of fine weather has very materially improved the prospects of beekeepers throughout the Dominion. The wet spring and the early summer made the season very backward, and at the end of December the position was viewed very pessimistically. Mr. Earp, senior apiary instructor, said yesterday that the very favourable weather since the beginning of the year had had the effect of increasing the honey crop in several districts, particularly Canterbury, where the returns would be about the average of last year. Taking the Dominion as a whole, however, it was not expected that the crop would be larger than last rear's, but the quality of the honey would be -well up to standard. The late flow had retarded the taking of ioney and it was therefore too early to estimate the quantity that would be n-ajlable for export. Beekeepers would be busily engaged in extracting up to the end >f March, and. in some Southern districts till well into April.
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Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 44, 22 February 1927, Page 4
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