BEEKEEPERS
REQUEST FOR NEW APIARY. DEPUTATION TO MINISTER. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, June 14. Representing the National Beekeepers’ Association, Messrs A. Acroud and A. R. Bates approached the Minister of Agriculture (the Hon. O. J. Hawken) to-day with a request that the Government should subsidise contributions within the industry and stressed also the need for the establishment for a new apiary, suggesting South Canterbury as the site. The Director-General of Agriculture, (Dr. C. J. Reakes) said the policy of the Department was to make as many institutions as as possible a commercial success. If further hives were established in South Auckland and Waikato, no honey would be left in the district for production. “If we expend public money even on an improvement of this sort we want a return,” the Minister said. It was costing the Government £4,000 annually to help the beekeepers. The Minister promised to revise the Apiaries Act.
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Southland Times, Issue 20204, 15 June 1927, Page 6
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