There are newspaper cuttings here in Australia of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,
author of Sherlock Holmes, visiting apairies in Queensland.  There it is said
he kept bees.
 
I am surprised the New Zealanders have not come forward to claim Sir Edmund
Hilary as one of their own.  Yes he was the first man to climb Mount Everest
and again I have seen newspaper cuttings plus articles in our bee magazines on
a visit by Sir Edmund to Australia and promoting the fact he ate honey and
kept bees.
 
Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA