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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1774, 7 March 1906, Page 47

Tlie Government Apiarist, Mr Isaac Hopkins, during an address he delivered at Wyndham. said the bee industry in. Southland, as compared with other parts, of the colony, was in a very backward condition' Of something like one thousand 1 co'onies of bees that he had inspected, about 58 per cent, were contained in ordinary box hives worked on the sulphur pit system. The proportion, of box hives in the rest of the colony was only about 16 per co,pt.,. but no doubt in a season or two, now that interest. in the industry had been awakened, that defect would be remedied to a large extent.