THE HONEY INDUSTRY.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 June 1921, Page 5

THE HONEY INDUSTRY.

CONFERENCE OF BEE-KEEPERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The national conference of the Beekeepers’ Association was continued "fo-, day. It was decided that the matter of making a levy to provide a fighting fund should be laid before branches for consideration. The question of increasing the maximum penalty for breaches of the Apiaries Act to £2O was introduced by the Auckland branch. The proposal was supported by the Southland branch, and the conference decided to urge the question on the attention of the Government with a view to early action. Mr. Kirk said that in the revised Apiaries Act provision was made for increasing the penalty to £3O. During last session it was impossible to secure the passage of more than urgent and emergency legislation. His sympathies were with the proposal to increase the penalties. “Even as it is,” he concluded, lf beekeepers are beginning to have some little respect for the Act as the result of' recent prosecutions.” Alterations in registration cards, to include a declaration as to the form of hive in use, whether box or frame hives, was suggested by the Auckland branch, but the motion was lost.