STOLEN 14 BS DEEP 14" X 12" HIVES FROM SEVEN MILE LANE

Over night on last Saturday/ early Sunday 20/21 October, I had 14 National 14x12 hives each with 3 or 4 supers (still having the honey crop in) Stolen from a farmsite halfway along Seven Mile Lane at East Peckham, Kent. The thieves took everything including a stack of extra supers with drawn comb and the hive stands. Some of the boxes of the hives are branded. The bees have New Zealand Queens, the brood frames are 14 x 12 with coloured coded plastic ends. The theft has been reported to the Police at Tonbridge who are investigating. Any information of such hives and bees being offered for sale would be of interest Please contact either Tonbridge Police Or Chris Morris, Riverdale, Benover road, Yalding Kent.