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<blockquote data-quote="NickWallingford" data-source="post: 9259" data-attributes="member: 44"><p>I do think they used this container, but more of the HMA's honey was either sold as Imperial Bee (a really old label that was used for many, many years) or using the Holland's Honey label - greenish container, Dutch woman on it, I think. It was the late 1960s when the HMA bought out Dick Holland (packer at Pleasant Point) and David Penrose's packing plant at Hornby. I think they bought the two to get the existing contracts for supply, as the HMA didn't have enough honey to keep its own Parnell honey plant working. Ultimately, buying those two packers put the HMA into a position where it was seen to be competing more with the local sales than working to export. The HMA was dismantled about 1980...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NickWallingford, post: 9259, member: 44"] I do think they used this container, but more of the HMA's honey was either sold as Imperial Bee (a really old label that was used for many, many years) or using the Holland's Honey label - greenish container, Dutch woman on it, I think. It was the late 1960s when the HMA bought out Dick Holland (packer at Pleasant Point) and David Penrose's packing plant at Hornby. I think they bought the two to get the existing contracts for supply, as the HMA didn't have enough honey to keep its own Parnell honey plant working. Ultimately, buying those two packers put the HMA into a position where it was seen to be competing more with the local sales than working to export. The HMA was dismantled about 1980... [/QUOTE]
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