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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 13278" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>That all seems very likely. I'll do some more searching, but don't recall any concept of "marking hives for ownership" until 1958. </p><p></p><p>The first ref I see for your greatgrandmother would be May 1921, when "Mrs. L. Adamson, Makikihi" had paid her NBA sub to 22 March of that year. These were the early days of the Honey Producers Assn. </p><p></p><p>Her name comes up again in Billy Bray's magazine, the NZ Honey Producer, in 1929 and 1930 - she was one of those on the "List of Signatures to Contract" (and in Canterbury then?). The HPA was in troubled times, and there was a movement to get beekeepers to forward contract their crop for the year to the HPA. The HPA had a total of nearly 1,200 shareholders - a goodly proportion of the total number of beekeepers. Efforts were made to get 75% of beekeepers to sign agreements to either sell through the HPA or as agents of the HPA at a uniform price to be fixed periodically, and in uniform packages.</p><p></p><p>Billy Bray's publication of this list of prominent beekeepers who had "signed the contract" (Privacy Act? What Privacy Act?) was an attempt to get the others (who were also shareholders!) to co-operate, rather than cut prices.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 13278, member: 44"] That all seems very likely. I'll do some more searching, but don't recall any concept of "marking hives for ownership" until 1958. The first ref I see for your greatgrandmother would be May 1921, when "Mrs. L. Adamson, Makikihi" had paid her NBA sub to 22 March of that year. These were the early days of the Honey Producers Assn. Her name comes up again in Billy Bray's magazine, the NZ Honey Producer, in 1929 and 1930 - she was one of those on the "List of Signatures to Contract" (and in Canterbury then?). The HPA was in troubled times, and there was a movement to get beekeepers to forward contract their crop for the year to the HPA. The HPA had a total of nearly 1,200 shareholders - a goodly proportion of the total number of beekeepers. Efforts were made to get 75% of beekeepers to sign agreements to either sell through the HPA or as agents of the HPA at a uniform price to be fixed periodically, and in uniform packages. Billy Bray's publication of this list of prominent beekeepers who had "signed the contract" (Privacy Act? What Privacy Act?) was an attempt to get the others (who were also shareholders!) to co-operate, rather than cut prices. [/QUOTE]
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