BEEKEEPERS CONFER

Press, Volume XCII, Issue 27710, 14 July 1955, Page 14

BEEKEEPERS CONFER

ADDRESS BY DIRECTOR OF HORTICULTURE (From Out Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, July 13. The Director of Horticulture, Mr A. Gr® told the annual conference of the National Beekeepers’ Association at Greymouth that the crop for the last season had been 550 tons more than the previous season, at 7000 KS?^wv,r eeswax production had been: 245,0001 b. or 19,4001 b more than last, • A * eature .?t the production had been tne exceptionally heavy cron of dark-coloured honey from bush ln „the Tauranga-East Cape cistnet Honey crops on the West Coast, Nelson and Marlborough had been poor, because of long periods of hot, dry weather. I lODey Produced, about one-fifth (i 307 tons) was delivered to JxM* 01 ? 7 Authority receiving depots and graded by the deA 0 "* 7 Of the total submitted. 14 tons, or about 1 per cent were rejected as unsuitable for marxeung. and 73 tons, or just over 5 per eent., could not be exported in its original condition, due to low specific gravity. This, however, was less than previous year when 117 tons had too low a specific gravity, said Mr txreig. &*** “ id at thr< » changes “•'L**?™ 2“ tbe production and marketing of honey—an increase in the number of commercial beekeepers vith a corresponding reduction in the number of domestic beekeepers: the removal 0{ apiaries from tne dark honey areas to the newly?n t'h2 P t?„J^? St T U , re J 3”.? 5 - Particularly in the North Island: the gradual extension and installation of laboursgvmg devices.