THE HONEY INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 162, 2 April 1908, Page 2

THE HONEY INDUSTRY.

Mr. I. Hopkins, chicf Government apiarist, arrjved in Christehurch on Saturday morning (says',tho " Lyttelton -Tithes") to inspect one or two apiairics that aro badly infected by disease, and to t&ko the.ncceßsary Steps t-o prevent the contamination of other beo.\in tho district. Mr; ..Hopkins leaves for Wellington, 011 Wednesday night, ;but. will again. . visit the South Island .for a 'longer Stay about the -middle- of April;: :j;. On April ft, Mr. Hopkins will attend tho;,. "Hawke's" Bay Agricultural and Pastonl Sho'ny where "the first exhibition will be.made. :: of the honey; ho his been-collecting from different parts l of ■ New' Zealand. for tho., Franco-British, Exhibition was sent away.by the s.s. Arawa-last week. An endeftvdnr is • being made to have tho honey, exhibited also at the Royal Horticultural Show m England, There' are sixty-eiglit-samples, in;tho -Enghshv.,;.. and fiftv-eight 'in the- local exhibit. 1 Mr. . Hopkins' thinks thkt the one sent Home is a? fine an exhibit of'first-class; honey as c<tyld ,ba ■ got together .anywhere. . ■ . : . . 'Asked how beekeepers were accepting tho Apiaries Act generally, Mr. Hopkins said:- . "Splendidly!":So far neither*-'himself -nor.' his assistant inspectors'have met with , any ~ .opposition, those the,' Act' most. ;.affects-.are i taking -it- as a matter of course, and -.doing: 'all that : is . required- to' coriply ; with- its \' Visions., ,f:v >u.; v- .