As Murray Reid has posted the January Apis on Bee-L, I thought all those on
Bee-L should also see what I had written to Apis so that those on Bee-L will
not have wrong information.
 
>A correction needs to be made to one of the points in the paper by Sugden et
>al.  It says:-
 
>"3. Promote beekeeping and apicultural products through organisations like the
>National Honey Board and Australia's Honeybee Research and Development Council"
 
>The Honeybee Research and Development Council is now called the Honeybee
>Research and Development Committee (HBRDC).  Please don't ask me why unless
>you have a lot of spare time.  I digress.
 
>The HBRDC does not promote beekeeping or apicultural products.  It is set up
>under Government legislation to fund Research and Development (R&D).  There is
>no charter to promote the industry or apicultural products.
 
>Basically, statutory levies are collected on honey sales, Australia wide, and
>this money can only be used to fund R&D.  The money spent on R&D, and not
>administration, is matched at the present time $ for $ by the Australian
>Government.
 
>Australia did have a body to fund industry and product promotion but that no
>longer exists.
 
>Trevor Weatherhead
>AUSTRALIA