APIARY REGISTRATION

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27081, 16 May 1949, Page 6

APIARY REGISTRATION

Sir, —Would you please grant me space to reply to "Hobby’s” letter on apiary registration? In the first place, the proposed regulations are not new. The proposal has been before the beekeepers' conference on at least two occasions and tossed out. If “ Hobby ” thinks Mr Herron's was the only small voice of reason, I am afraid “ Hobby's ” sense of reasoning must be somewhat tied and shackled to bureaucratic red tape and regulations. The beekeepers of New Zealand pay rates and subscribe to local activities just the same as any other citizen. As to the itinerant beekeepers talked about, they are just a plain myth. In my own case, I am surrounded by five commercial beekeepers, and up to the present date’ none of these gentlemen have acted the ” pirate ” and pushed hives in on the area I have taken up, although they are quite at liberty to do'so. Why should the whole industry be tied up and regulated because of a few who might have overstepped the margin of fair play? " Hobby ” should consider the complications if such a regulation were to come into force. After reading the proposed regulations, they appear to me to have been drafted by itinerant drones.—l am, etc., John o’ Groats. Gore