Peter wrote re Australia's quarantine station

> The importation of new genetic breeding stock is a matter of grave concern 
> for the
> honeybee industry. The quarantine facility at Eastern Creek NSW has been 
> sold and
> will cease to provide an importation service for honeybee genetic breeding 
> stock after
> 2010.

All is not doom and gloom.  It would seem that we have support to have 
another facility built for this importation to continue.  All we need to do 
is negotiate where and how it will operate.

Trevor Weatherhead
AUSTRALIA 

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