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Otago Witness, Issue 3495, 8 March 1921, Page 36

” Thirty shillings per hive per annum should be, tho return from bee-keeping,” said the Apiary Inspector in the Ashburton Magistrate’s Court last week dining the hearing of some charges, when the evidence of defendants indicated that keeping bees was a very unprofitable business.* The inspector aded that his visits showed him that though there were plenty of hives kept, there were very few people who knew bow to keen them properly, and consequently only about one in 20 secured a good crop of honey. Tho Nottinipam works of Messrs Cammoll, Laird, and Co. (Ltd. ), who were the successful tenderers for a contract for 2500 railway wagons for the Now Zealand Government at a cost of £BOO,OOO obtained the contract against competition from some of tho best known American and French firms as well as German. These works were built during the war to make munitions and now employ over 1000 men. The contract from Now Zealand necesaitatod a large addition to tho staff at the works, there being other big orders in hand for rolling stock for various parts of the world.