STUNG BY BEE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20102, 8 May 1935, Page 11

STUNG BY BEE

DEATH OF A SHEARER It is believed that a bee sting, which was followed by a swelling of the throat and choking, caused the death of Ambrose George McKander, aged 46, shearer and carrier, of Yass, New South Wales, who died while being driven in a motor-truck to a doctor lately. Mr McKander, his two sons, and Gordon Charles Cooper, left town in the evening about seven o’clock to rob some wild bees' hives they had found. They robbed one hive and Mr McKander and his sons sampled the honeycomb. It is thought that there was a bee in the honeycomb that Mr McKander ate, and that it stung him on the inside of his throat. The party chopped down another tree and had almost completed robbing a second hive when Mr McKander said he felt ill. His condition became worse, and Mr Cooper put him in the lorry and drove him to town. It is believed that he died, from choking. i Mr M> Kander was a strong, vigorous man, and had spent the day working in a timber yard.