HONEY POISONING CASE.
STATEMENT BY THE GOVERNMENT BEE EXl'EltT. (By Teleeraph.—Fros3 A.ssociation.l Hamilton, June 5. In connection with the case of honey poisoning reported from Waimat'enui, Mr. Hopkins, of the Government Apiary Division, who is attending the Wailtato Winter Show here, stated that Iho poisonous matter contained in the honey had not he™ obtained from whauriki which is generally responsible for any trouble in the fall of (he year, but he believes it must be. from a deleterious ingredient which, by pome moans, got into the honey. Ho is particularly anxious Iliat full 'investigation, including n complete analysis of the honey, should );e made as Ihere is no reason to fear thai, apart from whaurangi and wh.-.nriki, any poisonous substance is g;\iheivd by bees and the ojily i-au-o ho van imagine is that' some ptomaine or other poison by some means got into the hnney in the course of working which might _ easily occur under the strictest supervision.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1146, 6 June 1911, Page 4
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