BEEKEEPERS MOVING OUT OF FRUIT AREA
• HASTINGS,: August 19. Dis'aatisfied Jwith tlie failuxie ,qi the Government to introduce' legislatiom to prevent the use of lead arsenate sprays before 75 per eent of blossom had fallen, beelceepers in the Hastings district have begun shifting their colonies out of the district. In doing this they are giving eft'ect to a threat made at a eonfereuce they had with the Hawke 's Bay Fruitgrowers Association after the wholesale poisoning of bees last season. The move has been precipitated by an intimation by the. Ministbr of Agriculture, Hon. B. Roberts, in reply to a question in Parliament, that an advisory committee consisting of representatives of orehardists, bcekeopers and Department Nof Agriculture, should be set up to secure the co-operation of orehardists on the subject. This the beelceepers eonsider will not meet requirenients.
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Chronicle (Levin), 20 August 1946, Page 8
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