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Otago Witness, Issue 3860, 6 March 1928, Page 5

In the Police Court mt Wellington Steward Robert Cleary Fletcher admitted forging a letter in Auckland. purporting to be signed by Dr J. MacFarlane, and was committed to the Supreme Court for' sentence. The accused had been questioned bv the police respecting an application he made for admission to the Police Force. A detective doubted the of the testimonials. Later in Wellington the accused admitted that they were forgeries, but stated that no use had been made of them. A return of registered apiaries made last year, states a report of the Government Statistics Office shows that there were then 7726 apiaries in the Dominion, representing 106,C89 hives. There were 135 apiaries with 100 hives or more, and 430 apiaries with from 50 to 99 hives. Practically half the apiaries are under five hives, but these represent less than 89 per cent of the total number of hives.