"ACADEMIC" APPLES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 221, 12 June 1919, Page 8

"ACADEMIC" APPLES

I AND THE HONEY INDUSTRY.. !■ "1 would ask you to be very ;, careftil. I In considering any remits concerning [ alterations to constitution or requests in I -the Department of Agriculture.", said !■ r Fno president at the National Beekcep- !■'' ers' Association of Now Zealand at the j ■:. conference yesterday. "The latter body !■■ ■ is a regular 'old man of the sea,' and if j, once you get him.on! j-our back he In r--- very hard to off./ These remarks I .Tefer especially to the grading, etc., of i, our honey.' I should he veryjsorry to I' , ' see the honey industry in the Same pre \. dicament that the fruit industry is in V in New' Zealand. ■ The Department has J ■ the. unfortunate knack of removing all j.; the, gilt from our smaller industries 'by ; their drastic, and inelastic regulations. t Owin;> to their', machinations the people [-.' cannot get good cheap fruit—it is put j l ' out; of tln'ir .reach owing to the Departi\'.: ' merit's .endeavour to foist upon them sn ! 'acaaemic'apple—without spot or blemish j ... or any such thfn.gy The general public , ; does not want an; 'academic' apple, but ;'■' «.good^.wholesome, 'cheap fruit. And so ! ■ it was'with our honey: 1 We-don't want i'-.'.to be over-graded or over-ha>assed in ;. • the conduct of our -industry," concluded , ; \ Jlr. Barker. , . t