BEEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE
SUGGESTION FOE EMPLOYMENT'OF >■ , soldiers.; .; ■•/'■': r By Telegraph-Press' Association. " ?y, .....■• . Christchurch, May 30. :' At'-'the'Canterbury Beekeeping Conference" to-day a - good.deal of roferenco was made to the suitability "of beekeeping for dischargwl soldiers. It ivas decided, to urge on the Government the necessity for the establishment of..a 'State : in the Sooth Island.;.'•". . ih. ■ ■:' •;-,;•'■:. .i Miss M. Sheppeard. -suggesjed that twenty such apiaries '■'should ■be estab'f lished and put uuder^the 1 charge of dis : charged soldiery,who could leceive-their training from Government instructors. A 6tart could bo made with twenty or thirty colonies, which could'bo gradually increased in Jiumbor, epthat discharged soldiers could earn a 'good:.salary be-, fore'they were "left-to , themselves.' '■■- '" The conference decided to emphatically oppose any relaxation of the trading regulations regard to liquid honey.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 10
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124BEEKEEPERS' CONFERENCE Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 211, 31 May 1919, Page 10
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