WASPS MENACE RESIDENCE OF OHOPE MAN

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 45, 17 May 1950, Page 5

WASPS MENACE RESIDENCE OF OHOPE MAN

Over the hill in Ohope, in one of those many temporary dwellings, lives “Old ,Bill” (to you) and his wife. They will long remember Thursday, writes an Ohope correspondent. Throughout the afternoon wasps, those pretty black and yellow fellows, made determined efforts to enter and possess their shack.

As Old Bill says, “There’s hardly room for us two to turn round in it,; without dodging a swarm of stingers.”

Up and down outside the closed windows went the wasps, looking for a wasp-size crannie. And in the door, and sometimes out! again, whenever it was opened; and it just couldn’t be kept shut all the time. What a day! Old Bill declares the good old Beacon is a real friend in need if ever there was one. With a rolledup Beacon he proved himself king of his little castle, and he’s proud of the afternoon’s killing of 14 wasps. If size counts for anything, then two outsizers were queens. Old Bill wants to know if the wasps have joined the army of homeless house-seekers? Or are they belatedly staging a May Day demonstration? Or has the Progressive Association so aroused their ire that they have organised an oposition Agressive Association? Or have they turned just plain sociable? But we do ask. if they are like this now in their off-season, how will Ohope residents and visiters fare this next summer? Officers Re-elected Mr W. Hunter, Whakatane, was re-elected president at the annual meeting of the Eastern Bay of Plenty Master Builders’ Association held at Whakatane. Mr C. Williams, Opotiki, was elected vice-president and Mr J. Dickson, Ohope, publicity officer.