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#Tenants Faced #BlackMold, Ceiling Collapses, And #Pest #Infestations. Now, Over 1,500 Units Have #Unionized Across Six States

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_The Evening Post_, 17 February 1925:
LOCAL AND GENERAL
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For this past twenty years #bees have inhabited some portion of the old school building at #Morrinsville (says the local correspondent of the “New Zealand Herald”). Repeated attempts to remove them always proved unsuccessful, the bees invariably returning to their old haunt. About a year ago the school committee became greatly concerned, as almost every day some child was stung. As a result of the publicity given suggestions for the removal of the bees were received from people in different parts of New Zealand and also Australia, and from the Department of Agriculture. Eventually the committee, after other methods had failed, got the assistance of a bee expert. All traces of the hives were removed, and the boards were liberally covered with a solution calculated to prevent the return of the bees. For several months they kept away, and the system adopted was thought to be a success. The bees, however, had not forgotten the school, and are again back as lively as ever.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19250217.2.34

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