HONEY PRODUCTION

New Zealand Herald, Volume 81, Issue 24969, 11 August 1944, Page 7

HONEY PRODUCTION

MA I? KETING CON DITIONS WAIKATO INTERESTS (0.C.) HAMILTON, Thursday If the proposals to be put before the Government by the Honey Control Board were to come into operation, said the chairman, Mr W. Nelson, at a meeting convened by the South Auckland branch of the National Beekeepers' Association, there would be a substantial decrease in the amount of honey to be sent to the Marketing Division by individual beekeepers, as compared with the requirements of the existing regulations.

Mr Nelson said it had to be admitted that many beekeepers had not fully complied with the terms of the Act, which compelled them to support the division with 70 per cent of their production. While the board held no brief for those who had failed in this way, it recognised the injustice of the existing position, where a loyal supplier to the division had to accept a lower net income than that obtained by nonsuppliers for the same production of honev.

With the object of improving this position an alternative scheme had been drawn up of providing beekeepers with exemption from the regulations of the production from '-'0 hives if from the balance approximately 301 b per hive was sent to the division. Mr A. 11. Ilonevfield, of the Internal Marketing Division, said he felt that beekeepers should decide whether they should unite to form a co-operative organisation for the marketing of their products at the cessation of hostilities or not. To do this they must be prepared to supply 1000 or 1200 tons of noney annually to the division's plants at Auckland. For advertising honey in the post-war years, when other food spreads would also be plentiful and the demand for honey not as great as it was now, the special reserves set aside by the division for that purpose would be used.

Concerning costs, Mr Ilonevfield said that if a beekeeper could prove that costs had been increased since stabilisation had been introduced lie was entitled to appeal to tic Stabilisation Commission.

"The Internal Marketing Division does not want all the honey produced bv beekeepers," said Mr Honeyfield. "All we want is enough honey, say of) per cent, so as to be in a position to control the market and stabilise the prices. The producer could sell the rest of his honey on his own account." The president of the association, Mr R. A. Field, said that .">8 per cent, of commercial beekeepers in the North Island and <!- per cent in the South Island were members of the association.

PROTEST BY STUDENTS

TOWN HALL SCHEME

A statement that their protest against the proposal of the City Council to make additions to the Town Hall, resulting in the diversion of Grey's Avenue into Hledisloe Street, was made in all seriousness and was not in the nature ul' a student prank, is contained in a letter which the student civic affairs group has sent, to the Mayor and councillors. A petition signed by over 100 students at Auckland University College, as well as a number of professors and lecturers, was presented to the Mayor. Mr .T. A. C. Allutn, on Juno F>. The City Council's reply to the petition was that the town-planning aspect had been fully considered before the preparation of the plans, that the public would be given full opportunity of expressing its views when the plans were ready, and that there was provision for objections to the raising of a loan for the carrying out of the scheme. In its letter the student group reiterated the opinion that, the scheme did not have the approval of the townplanning experts.

Friday night at M. and C.'s! You'll long remember this one! Spring has transformed the entire store. In the windows and throughout all departments colour-inspired displays of New (-■nods proclaim the young season. This vear good sense goes hand in band with fashion sense. Styles are lovely as first flowers, yet, perennials of maintained integrity, to wear with pleasure for seasons. The whole atmosphere will send your morale sky high. Conic! Let it hearten you, as it has heartened us! —Milne and Choyce, Ltd. —Advt.