THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES.
MEETING EVERY EMERGENCY.
When the , f ,new, o ', Governor-General (Lord Bledisloe) ~was chairman, of...the Sugar Control. Board during the war, he had a billet that required all the tact and resourpefulness. he possessed. For instan- e, on one. occasion, the beekeepers demandedi'.m ore sugar, because .-ord Bledisloe’s strict rationing was starving their beßS,jßees make, honey, and honey save?, sugar, so he complied, but later on the fruitgrowers protected strongly complaining, that owing to the sugar supplied theßbees remained in tlieir {lives ?and did not go. abroad to seek their supplies with the result that there was little or -no. fertilisation of the fruit trees. Those who have heard -his Excellency since he. arrived in NewZealjmd (remark^/;a northern exchange) will realise that he would eventually find a wav of satisfying both bee-keepers and orehardists.
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Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1930, Page 4
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137THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. Hokitika Guardian, 12 April 1930, Page 4
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