How Many Can You Name? – The Answer Sheet…

Readers of our December content will be aware that we ran the below photo – as supplied by Hawke’s Bay beekeeper John Berry – with the challenge to see who of our readers could name the most subjects in the photo. Now the results are in…

From left to right: Paul Ashcroft (Havelock North), Tony Taiaroa (Leeston), Guy Dobson (Dargaville), Stewart Booth (Drummond), Foster Ikimau (Nuie Island), Nick Wallingford (Leeston), Tony Wilton (Waihi), Peter Pegram (Frasertown), Peter Viner (Himatangi), Phillip Cropp (Motupiko), Grahame Walton (M.A.F. Palmerston North), John Berry (Havelock North), Theras Broadley (Paeroa), Charles Gauthern (Dargaville), Murray Reid (М.А.Е. Christchurch), Trevor Bryant (M.A.F. Gore), Alistair Little (Kaitaia), and Peter Kemble (Fairview).

The photo was taken during a week-long Queen Bee Production training course hosted by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries at their Flock House Farm Training Institute in the Manawatu, January 1976. A cropped version of the photo appeared in the June 1976 New Zealand Beekeeper magazine (thanks to Nick Wallingford – front of shot – for providing me a link to that magazine) and thanks to this, we can reveal the full caption as detailed above.

So, who had the keenest eye and best memory of our readership? – Roger Bray of Mid Canterbury. Roger successfully named nine of the 18 subjects, and could supply some info – but not names – of others. Not bad after 48 years and he wasn’t even on the training course! A prize is on its way to Canterbury for Roger.

An honourable mention goes to Keith Pegram of Te Kapu Apiaries in Hawke’s Bay, who successfully identified five of the beekeepers, including – most importantly – his father Peter Pegram.

Thanks to all those who sent in their educated guesses.