Beekeepers

Date: 1925 - 1959 - 1940

By: Alliance Box Company Ltd; A Ecroyd & Son Ltd; New Zealand Co-operative Honey Producers Association Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-1920/1960

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Includes: Alliance Box Company Ltd catalogues for 1925/26 and 1926/27, 1932/33, 1936/37, 1937/38, 1938/39, 1939/40 and two undated from 1920-30s. NZ Co-operative Honey Producers Assn Ltd Season 1922-23. A Ecroyd catalogues for 1932/33, 1934/35, 1935/36, 1938/39. A Ecroyd & Son Ltd and Alliance Bee-Supplies Co Ltd combined catalogue ca 1959. Quantity: 15 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, in sales catalogues, sizes varing around 200 mm.

Date: 1983

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989; Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.)

Reference: B-136-147

Description: Shows three scenes regarding security at parliament. In the top right scene two men are suggesting to Muldoon that he will require an armed guard when he returns from overseas trips because he will be carrying large amounts of foreign currency. Refers to overseas borrowing by the government. In the lower left scene security officers are dressed as bee-keepers 'in case swarms of protesters descend on the Beehive'. In the lower right scene Muldoon is sitting at his desk as his secretary announces that there is a deputation wanting to know if a security package is being prepared for the country outside parliament to protect them against what goes on inside parliament and the Beehive. Refers to the increasing unpopularity and hardship caused by Muldoon's economic policies. Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink, white gouache, letratone and crayon, 455 x 320 mm Finding Aids: Photocopies available in Pictorial Reference Service.

Date: 1897

By: Isaac Hopkins & Company

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-1897-01

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Merchandise includes: extractors, honey tanks, hives, section boxes, smokers, knives, rubber gloves, dry-sugar feeders, comb holders, hive clamps, wax extractors, comb holders, Apifuge (insect repellant), honey tins and labels, Italian queen bees, fruit cases. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, in booklet of 16 pages, each 215 x 140 mm.

Date: 1897 - 1919 - 1949 - 1905 - 1925

By: Pender Brothers Pty Ltd; H L Jones (Firm); Anthony Hordern & Sons (Firm)

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-Australia

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Includes: H L Jones, Mel Bonum Apiaries, Goodna, Queensland. Bees, hives and honey; illustrated catalogue of bee-keepers' requisites for season 1897-8. Pender Brothers, beekeepers and manufacturers of beekeepers' supplies, West Maitland, NSW. Illustrated catalogue. 11th edition. August 1901. Anthony Hordern & Sons. Haymarket Sydney. 1905 beekeepers' supplies. Pender Bros Ltd. NSW price lists 1919 and 1925. Pender Bros. Appliances for the treatment of honey & beeswax. January 1949. Quantity: 6 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, in sales catalogues, sizes varing around 200 mm.

Date: 1928-1929, 1953-1983

By: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985

Reference: 85-016

Description: Material concerning Hansen family and its association with the Beeville Community. Includes correspondence, historical writings, annual accounts and honey sales books, peace circulars, Beeville Bulletin, personal diary (1928-1929), Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 22 folder(s). 0.60 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss

Date: 1905

Reference: PA1-o-1603

Description: Album of photographs of Kohukohu Farm, Tarurutangi, Taranaki, taken 1905 by an unknown photographer. Includes photographs of the homestead, paddocks, men ploughing and hay making, railway station and street view outside the premises of Newton King (Land stock and financial agent) in New Plymouth. Includes a map of the farm. Source of title - Title supplied by Library Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: 13.5 x 19 cm Provenance: Purchased at auction, 2009

Date: 1914

By: Alliance Box Company Ltd; Stone, Son and Company

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-1914-01

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Merchandise includes: "Alliance" dove-tailed hive, smokers, sections, division board feeders, Root's capping melters, Alexander honey strainer, Root's automatic extractor, Baines capping melter, wax extractors and presses, queen-rearing outfits, 'Porter" escapes, Van Deusen wax-tube fastener, honey bags and cartons, bee veils, bee brushes, books on beekeeping. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Booklet of 32 pages, each 215 x 142 mm.

Date: 1917

By: Alliance Box Company Ltd; Stone, Son and Company

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-1917-01

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Merchandise includes: Alliance twelve-frame dove-tailed hives, Hoffman frames, section frames, metal spaced frames, nickelled steel hive tool, comb foundation, Baines capping reducer, honey extractors, Hershiser wax press, Root wax press and uncapping can, Solar wax extractors, Swiss wax extractor, Benton queen cage, Alley queen and drone trap, honey knives, Porter bee escape, spur wire embedder, golden and three-banded queens, Holterman bee brushes, bee veils, smokers, honey packages, west cell protectors, Miller queen-catcher and introducing cage. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, in booklet of 16 pages, each 213 x 139 mm.

Date: 1916

By: Alliance Box Company Ltd

Reference: Eph-A-BEE-SUPPLIES-1916-01

Description: Lists and illustrates items for sale, with prices. Merchandise includes: separate parts of hives, frames, smokers, comb foundation, sections, stimulating feeders, cement-coated wire nails, bee veils, gloves, frame wire, observation hives, etc. Quantity: 1 album(s). Physical Description: Letterpress, in booklet of 8 pages, each 213 x 139 mm.

Date: 1926-1959

From: Hansen, Raymond Ernest, 1910-1985 : Papers

Reference: 84-204-79

Description: Correspondents and topics include: Ernest Bromley of Ohio, 1959; Jim Hutt and family of England, 1950s; Eric Booth, 1936; Jean of Wellsford, 1932; Harding Brown of Sumner, 1957; E Brown of Karekare, 1932; J H Berglin of Sweden, 1949-1953; Tarlton Rayment (beekeeper of Australia), 1926-1933; honey marketing, 1944-1957; J Krishnamurti and NZ Section of Theosophical Society, 1935-1955 Quantity: 1 folder(s).

Date: 1921

From: Godber, Albert Percy, 1875-1949 :Collection of albums, prints and negatives

Reference: APG-1882-1/2-G

Description: Bee-keepers' day at the state apiary at the Ruakura Agricultural Research Centre. The president of the National Beekeepers' Association of New Zealand is addressing the gathering, with two groups of men and women, mostly seated, one group on the left beneath trees, and the others on the right in front of a hedge. An elderly man is seated in a three-wheeled wheelchair in the foreground. There is a strip of lawn between the two groups, at the end of which is a gate in a fence with a small thatched summer house behind. A car is also visible behind the fence. Photographed by Albert Percy Godber in 1921. An original print from this negative is in Godber Album Vol 109, p 143 (PA1-q-102) with the inscription "Bee-keepers' day, Ruakura". Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Dry plate glass negative 6.5 x 4.75 inches

Date: [195-?]

From: Tourist and Publicity

Reference: 1/2-027362-F

Description: Rehabilitated ex-serviceman, who has taken up bee farming in the Wairarapa, photographed for the National Publicity Studios, circa 1950s. Shows him checked a hive. Source of descriptive information - Notes on file print. Dated estimated by cataloguer. Quantity: 1 b&w original negative(s). Physical Description: Film negative Processing information: Copyright and Access Restrictions updated December 2022.