Please note: All submissions must be received no later than 5pm on Friday 3 July 2009.

Consultation on the New Zealand honey standard for monofloral varieties of table honey has begun. The consultation document has been mailed to all Branch Presidents and Secretaries, Executive Members, RMP holders, members of the Honey Packers Association and Beekeeping Clubs. Submissions are being called from all interested parties on any aspect of the draft standard for monofloral varieties of table honey. In particular submissions are sought on:

• the use of appearance, pollen and organoleptic criteria as principles for differentiating floral varieties, and

• the suitability of the range of values used for each floral type.

The consultation paper on the draft standard, and a submission form, are available as electronic and hard copies from:

• The NBA website at: http://www.nba.org.nz/node/621

• The Federated Farmers website at: http://www.fedfarm.org.nz/industry/bees

• by emailing: Honeystandard@gmail.com Please use the subject “Copies of standard and submission requested”.

You can open and download the documents by clicking on them below: Consultation Paper
Advice for Submitters
All submissions must be received no later than 5pm on Friday 3 July 2009.

I am Philippe Meloni a 27 years old belgian beekeeper with 3 years of experience.
I am looking for a 'BEE JOB' in New Zeland for this new season (2009),
My english is fluent and french is my tong langage.
I am myself the owner of 10 hives, I have some experience in queen rearing (picking), honey production, smarm catching and production, and I love bees.
I am motivated, able to think and a very easy guy.
I am available from september.
Here are my contact details:
Philippe Meloni
E-mail: philmeloni@yahoo.fr
Tel: 0032 472 403 604

As part of the MAF Biosecurity New Zealand South Island varroa response, AsureQuality has been providing a free extension service to beekeepers. This service will not be available after 30 June 2009 when the MAFBNZ South Island varroa response ends. Beekeepers wanting advice up until this time can phone AsureQuality on 0508 00 11 22.

A young French beekeeper called Frank Lami is now looking for a position over the summer with a queen breeder in New Zealand.

CURRICULUM VITAE - Please click Read More below.

Hi,
My name is Andrei. I am 29, from Romania (EU). I've been working with bees since I was a child. My father had around 150 beehives, and I have done all the jobs in the apiary. I am living now in Uk where I work at an apiary which has around 1500 hives. I am looking for a beekeeping job for the spring time in NZ. I would finish my job here in October, and I would like to work in NZ.
Thank you!
E-mail address: mandreyv@yahoo.com

Dennis Amor Balaqui has sent his resume and is looking for work.

Read his resume.

E-mail address: linking_mitch030580@yahoo.com

I am a beekeeper from Russia. I am 39 years old.

I have considerable experience in beekeeping: breeding, keeping and
treatment of bee-families.

I am looking for a seasonal work of beekeeper or beekeeper assistant.
I worked as a beekeeper in the Urals. We had 150 bee-families. We had
Apis melliFera melliFera L. bees.

Christian Pirk was born in Berlin in 1973; he studied Biology and Mathematics. After finishing his MSc, at the Technical University of Berlin, he moved on to do a PhD in Grahamstown, South Africa under the supervision of Prof Hepburn on Cape honeybees Apis mellifera capensis in 2000. During the two years of PhD work on reproductive conflicts, he was as well involved in the first projects between Prof Hepburn’s group and und USDA on investigating the biology of the Small Hive beetle (SHB) and its interactions with its hosts.

The group arrived back this evening 8.30 pm Thursday May 14 from the Australian study trip.

Group names front row left to right: Damien Ward, Cameron Martin (Team Leader), Barbara Pimm, Garry Sinkinson (Principle Driver), Rattana, Jody Mitchell.

Back row left to right: Steve Thomas (Luggage), Brian Lancaster (Driver), Allan Pimm (Vice Team Leader), Sarah Peacey (Scribe), Emmanuel Kelly (Timekeeper), Jan W Van Hoof (Treasurer), Ryan Mossop, Ralf Mitchell.

New: Animal Products - Draft Consultation - Animal Products (Harvest Statement and Tutin Requirements Export Bee Products) Notice 2009. Please visit: http://www.nzfsa.govt.nz/animalproducts/publications/consultation/index.htm.