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