BEEKEEPERS' DINNER

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 95, 22 April 1940, Page 10

BEEKEEPERS' DINNER

Delegates to the annual conference of the National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand were entertained at dinner by the Wellington branch last week in the National Club. ' Among those present were Mr. W. K. Dallas (Department of Agriculture), Mr A. E. Field (national president), Mr' G. H. Kirker (general secretary and editor of the Beekeepers' Journal), Mr. W. Nelson (chairman of the Honey Control Board), Mr. H. F. Dodson (field instructor of the Wellington Province), Mr. J. M. Bodmin and Mr. W P Carter (president and secretary respectively of the Wellington branch). Mr. Bodmin welcomed the delegates and friends attending the conference. Mr. Field replied. Mr. Kirker, in his reply to the toast of the national executive, proposed by Mr E Cannons, referred to the indefatigable efforts of Mr. W. P. Carter, secretary of the Wellington branch, who had also been largely responsible for arranging the dinner. ... Mr C R. Barrett proposed the toast !of the Department of Agriculture, to which Mr. Dallas replied. Mr. Dallas mentioned that social functions such as these were one of the high lights of. the conference. He complimented delegates on the high standard of conference, and referred to the satisfactory position of the honey industry, due in great part to the work of the field instructors. Mr W. Nelson spoke in appreciative terms of the Beekeepers' Association and the value of the organisation. He emphasised that the Honey Control Board could not deal with individuals, but progress could be made with beekeepers collectively through an organisation. • , After the dinner a colour film, dealing with bees and the gathering and storing of honey, was shown. Closeups of the energy displayed by worker bees in gathering nectar from flowers were of great interest, as was also the work of the bees in forming and preparing the cells for the honey which was photographed in section view through glass. '