APICULTURE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXI, Issue 10919, 20 September 1932, Page 2

APICULTURE

MR J. S. COTTERELL’S ACTIVITIES. Mr J. S. Cotterell, who recenflj took - "up his residence in Monmouth Street, Tauranga, is an enthusiast!? bee-keeper, and has been in bask ness for over thirty years. At oti« time he was the President ot tie New Zealand Beekeepers’ AssotUtion. Mr Cotterell’s apiary is located at Shaftesbury, near Te Aro. ha, and he manages it from Tim. ranga, although it is fifty-three miles from here. In America apt aries are controlled at considernblj longer distances. Mr Cotterell is an ex-President of the Waikato Bee* keepers’ Association, and was Else formerly a Government administntive official in Fiji and Raralougi (Cook Islands), being stationed \ the latter place when the Islands bk came a British Protectorate, Ok British Resident being the lati Lieut.-Col. Gudgeon. During his lifetime Mr Cotterell has had many varied and excifitt experiences. He was at Haw! when the earthquakes took place or that island in 1885. A new volcaw broke out on the side of the large volcano on the island. There was a lava flow which extended, to twenty-five miles and ait its base was from two to three miles wide and twenty feet high. Steamers brought large numbers of sightseers in® Honolulu 130 miles away. Tie pasture lands over which the lan travelled were destroyed. As soot as the new volcano broke out tbs earthquakes—which lasted for a week —ceased. For over fifteen years Mr Cottaell was interested in sugar and «!• fee plantations and general trading, and on two occasions saw great hwoc wrought by hurricanes in Fiji and Samoa. He was in Honolulu in fit year 1886 when the white population fomented a successful insurrection h order to obtain the voting. Jraschise from the Native Government During his long- residence in the inlands he was acquainted with m people in five groups, from HomM to Tahiti, and was able to conwto with the natives of each group « had separate dialects. When the Te Puke district first settled by people who came M from the Old Country on the » Jocelyn, Mr Cotterell spent months there and stayed wUft and Mrs Tanner, of “Mendip Fans at the top of No. 1 Road.