NEWS IN BRIEF.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2047, 6 September 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

1 The Ulimaroa left Sydney on Thursday last with ;ii! letter bags and £9 pared bags of Australian mail for j Christchurch. She i,s due at Wellington ilo-ilav.

Mr E. A. Earp, Government Apiary Instructor, gave nil interesting address on Saturday evening 1o members of the Christchurch branch of the National Beekeepers' Association. Mr Earp dealt very fully with the subject of queen rearing.

and described the principal methods i'l use. Ue advised the amateur to keep as close as possible to Nature's methods, and allow the bees to perform their own work of queen rearing. Replying to a vote of thanks at the termination of the lecture, Mr Earp appealed for beekeepers to a>sisi the apiary instructors to stamp out foul brood. The instructors were averse, to taking extreme measures, btic it was evident from the tone of the. last National Conference, held in Christchurch, that beekeepers throughout the Dominion expected that effective steps should be taken to stamp out foul brood.

Mr P. W. Cone presided at the monthly meeting of the Canterbury Fruitgrowers' Association on Saturday evening. It was reported thai as the outcome of conferences between representatives of the association and the fruit auctioneers, the latter had agreed to charge, from November .1, I'd each for apple cases and (id for stone fruit Cases, with half rates for secondhand cases. Mr (i. H. Stratford. Government Orchard Instructor, who recently returnee! from the lire-blight-infested area of the Waikato, gave a brief address on fire-blight, and exhibited some interesting specimens. Mr Stratford ex pressed the opinion that there was not much chance of fire-blight reaching Canterbury this year, but advised growers to keep a sharp look-out for any signs of the disease within the next, few weeks. An interesting address on "Grafting" was given by Mr S. I. Pitch.

A. lecture on the development and future of the telephone, prepared by Mr D. R. I'arton, deputy-district telegraph engineer, was delivered before the Canterbury College Engineering Society on Saturday evening by Mr J. Cotter, Mr Part-on being unable to attend. The telephone systems of a country, said the lecturer, were a fairly good gauge of the country's development. The more intelligent and progressive were the people,'the more telephones they wanted. Telephone progress in Xew Zealand was wellnigh phenomenal —and much more rapid than in Australia. He referred to a statement recently made that the automatic telephone was "doomed," and stated that, except in a few American cities, where large manual telephone corporations had forced them to sell out, automatic telephone concerns had been everywhere successful. The lecturer dealt with the wonderful progress made with wireless telephony in recent years, but stated that so far it'had not reached the commercial stage, owing to the high cost and complexity of the apparatus, the possibility of interruption by atmospheric disturbances, the small range of wave-lengths that could be used, and the consequent interference between sets. The lecture was illustrated by experiments with telephone apparatus.

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