PEACEABLE ITALIANS
"These are Italians. They just stay quiet, and you can take them fairly easily." This was not an Australian speaking, nor a Greek general; not even a father demonstrating manoeuvres with the Christmas toy ■soldiers, but a bee-keeper in a street in St. Clair, Dunedin, answering the questions o( a little knot ol onlookers while !)«' removed an errant swarm from the branches of a fuchsia tree, (•'.videntl v Italian bees are less aggressive than their cousins. Still, a reporter who passed by in time to hear the remark was not disposed to investigate the fact more fully*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23870, 22 January 1941, Page 9
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99PEACEABLE ITALIANS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23870, 22 January 1941, Page 9
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