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<blockquote data-quote="Br. Adamson" data-source="post: 13277" data-attributes="member: 411"><p>I asked Ernest about the frames with a "6" on them today, and he told me that they had came from the bees at Hook in South Canterbury, where great grandma had them, and that "sometime around 1928 to 1930" the registration number was introduced. So perhaps they decided to use that as a unique marker voluntarily? He said some of the old petrol case boxes had that number on them too which i do recall. I still have a few of the frames in circulation, which i hesitate to remove knowing that they have been in use with occasional cleaning for nearly a century. He then gave a list of the Apiary Officers that had been at Oamaru, of whom Gary Jefferies was apparently the last, finishing sometime in the late 70's or early 80's maybe.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Br. Adamson, post: 13277, member: 411"] I asked Ernest about the frames with a "6" on them today, and he told me that they had came from the bees at Hook in South Canterbury, where great grandma had them, and that "sometime around 1928 to 1930" the registration number was introduced. So perhaps they decided to use that as a unique marker voluntarily? He said some of the old petrol case boxes had that number on them too which i do recall. I still have a few of the frames in circulation, which i hesitate to remove knowing that they have been in use with occasional cleaning for nearly a century. He then gave a list of the Apiary Officers that had been at Oamaru, of whom Gary Jefferies was apparently the last, finishing sometime in the late 70's or early 80's maybe. [/QUOTE]
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