BEES IN ’PLANE.
UNPLEASANT EXPERIENCE. LONDON, May 15. Whether 10 hives of bees, included in the freight of a Marseilles air liner were the first bees ever transported by air may be uncertain, says the Paris correspondent of The Times, but they are likely to be the last. The bees emerged from a broken crate and invaded the saloon. The passengers beat off their attacks by flapping newspapers at them, but more arrived in their hundreds, finally in their thousands. The passengers cowered under cloaks and handkerchiefs, but the unfortunate pilot could not reply. He stuck to the controls with exemplary fortitude, but avoided all unnecessary movements. He finished the journey covered with bees. When the liner arrived at Le Bourget, the bees swarmed in a broken hive where they found the queen.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 27 May 1931, Page 5
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