LOSSES TO APIARISTS IN SOUTHLAND.
The recent disastrous floods in Southland were responsible for heavy losses to the beekeepers. Quite a number of apiaries have been almost completely destroyed, those situated on the river-banks suffering most. Messrs. Allan and Graham’s Mataura Island Apiary, numbering fifty-two colonies, was swept away, but the owners were fortunate enough to recover ten stocks which had drifted against a live hedge. Mr. H. Winslade, .Willowbank Apiary, Kelso, was also a great loser: out of sixty colonies only fifteen remain, the rest being carried away by the rising' in the Pomahaka. Reports have reached me of further losses in minor apiaries, but I have not as yet received full details. The flood of 1913 will long be remembered by the beekeepers of Southland.-
E. A. Earp.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume VI, Issue 5, 15 May 1913, Page 551
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