Loading full honey boxes. Field's Apiaries 1967-68

The 1967 - 68 season. These bee hives were harvesting Manuka honey in the Wanganui Valley. At that time it was regarded as poor quality honey and only used to supplement feed bee hives in winter, sold to bakers or used to blend with clover honey

Field's Apiaries honey shed completed in 1967, Norbiton Road, Foxton.

Two 8 frame honey extractors and the honey then drained to a lower storage tank first passing through a mesh filter. Honey storage tins on right foreground.

Russel Field (foreground) of Field's Apiaries and employee "Brownie" 1967-68 season.

When working bees in the Wanganui Valley for Manuka Honey we sometimes stayed overnight in a caravan.

Field's Apiaries 1967-68 Honey Crop stored in kerosene tins as was the usual practice then. About 32 tons here whatever that is in Kilos?

We had no truck mounted mechanical lifter and had to manually lift the full honey supers (boxes) onto the back of the Ford truck, Each box weighed about 25kg

"Brownie" showing a frame containing bee larvae (brood) and some honey.  Brownie took over as head beekeeper from Norman Keane who had left to work as his own beekeeper business.

Most of Field's apiaries were scattered through the Manawatu area and were usually around 20 hives in each apiary. When I worked there in the 1967-68 season they had about 1300 hives in total. They were all standard 10 frame Langstroth hives. We didn't use queen exluders in any of them and neither did we have a mechanical loader. All hives and full honey boxes were manually lifted onto the flat tray Ford truck seen here.

A poster for the Parish dance for the church of the Venerable Bede in Shannon. The date of the dance is unknown, possibly before 1967.

Mounted black and white photograph attached to white card.

Foxton School First XV Rugby 1967. Those in photograph from left to right:-

Back Row – C. Thomson, J McDermott, S Maher, W Green, M Smith, Mr B Carlin

Centre Row – M Wilson, P Laursen, R Peta, D Bartosh, M Skipper

Front Row – G Berkahn, B Wilson, G Huff, G Shailer, B Williams

Black and white mounted photograph.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

Mounted black and white photograph attached to white card.

Foxton School Council 1967. Those in the photograph are from left to right:-

Back Row – Mr Rough, T Ellwood, B Wilson, R Valentine, M Wilson, J Wilson

Front Row – J Dunlop, S Thompson, S Betty, J Brown, P Mercer

Black and white mounted photograph.

Any use of this image must be accompanied by the credit “Foxton Historical Society”

Penciled on back: “15. Copy of a photograph on page 15 in ‘Levin 1967’. Showing Cambridge Street industrial area opposite the railway station. Made by Levin Photographic Services, negative on file in H.H.S.”

Written with blue ballpoint pen: “Railway & Cam. St. South.”

Stamped on back with black ink – Horowhenua Historical Society. Acc. No. Date 20/10/90

Railway Yards and Industrial Area, Levin, 1967. This photograph shows the view across the railway yards towards the Cambridge Street South industrial area, with the Horowhenua Electric Power Board at the extreme left.

1 B&W photo print copy, mounted

Used in promotion booklet -‘Levin 1967’, page 15.

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Black and white photograph.

Foxton School A Basketball 1967. Those in this photograph are from left to right:-

Back Row: Miss Rolf, M McDermott, J Bowden, L Wyllie, D Wilson.

Front Row: R Johnson, V Nicholson, G Rickerby.

Black and white photograph.

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Black and white photograph donated by E Mohekey

Members of the Foxton Sunshine Club outside the Foxton War Memorial hall, 1967.

Black and white photograph.

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Mounted black and white photograph attached to white card

Sandra Betty, Dux of Foxton DHS, 1967. Head and shoulders mounted black and white photograph of Sandra dressed in school uniform

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