BEES A NUISANCE.

Shannon News, 1 June 1923, Page 2

BEES A NUISANCE.

SHANNON RESIDENT DEMANDS ACTION. At Tuesday’s meeting of the Shannon Borough Council, Mr C. E. Veale forwarded the following letter“l have been complaining fora long time , about mv neighbour’s bees, but very little lias been'done. 'Last week three of my neighbours asked me to write again. Last, Sunday we had stewed pears for dinner and we had to lock ourselves in while we ate, them. Mrs Payne "batonat boil anything sweet on the fire or the house is full of bees and they are not .verv pleasant where. little children are. Mr Grumwald says lie is going to shift his bees in June. He said this last June and they are still here and it any of the councillors would like to see the bees, myself or Mrs Eagle would he only too pleased to show' you. A lot of people treat these bees as a joke and if they were near here they w T ould think different. I have been paying rates for four years and if I am not worth a little consideration it is time I was. If it bad been a councillor that had to live near these bees, they would have been shifted long ago. Hoping .something will be done and very soon as the people round here do not want them here again for the spring*” The Council decided to go right on with the by-law, and that Mr Veale be written to and informed that the by-law is now being gone on with to deal with the. matter.