Conference

Monday, July 07, 2008 - 11:45 PM

Are you attending the:
National Beekeepers Association of NZ, Seminar and Conference 2008
Masterton 13 – 17 July 2008

Xenacom Ltd is a sponsor at the conference and will be in attendance from 13 – 16 July.

We invite you to visit our display and learn how you can benefit by using Xen-APIARY to:

Manage disease, gain full traceability and effectively manage your hives:
· Simple & easy to use
· Enter data while out in the field
· Easily manage diseases
· Extensive extraction processing
· Track your product from source to end
· Instant reports on extractions, sites, hives, queens, supers, events & personnel.

Xen-APIARY is a web-based computer application established in 2004, designed specifically to help beekeepers manage their operations efficiently by recording data in an easy-to-use central system.

If you would like further information on how Xen-APIARY could work for you, or would prefer a one on one discussion, we are happy to schedule an appointment on Monday or Tuesday at the conference. To arrange a time please contact:

Julie Dillon
Project Manager
Xenacom Ltd
Tel: 07 827 0890
Mobile: 021 682 464
E-mail: Julie.dillon@xenacom.com
Website: http://www.xenacom.com

Saturday, June 07, 2008 - 04:35 PM

NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS ASSOCIATION HOBBY PROGRAMME 2008

Sunday 13th July
All hobbyist or new beekeepers welcome

9.30 am Cup of tea and welcome
10.00 Biology of the Bee (Frank Lindsay)
10.20 Siting your Apiary: local regulations (Neale Braithwaite)
(Wellington/Masterton/Palmerston North)
Note: all Councils are reviewing their by-laws)
10.40 Purchasing hives and equipment etc: three-quarter or full-depth hives (Neil Farrer)
11.00 Queen rearing simplified (Gary Jeffery)
11.20 Spring requeening versus autumn requeening (David Cramp)
11.40 Varroa treatments: ‘alternatives’ (Frank Lindsay)

LUNCH (1 hour: lunch provided)

1.00 pm Seasonal requirements of the bee (James Driscoll)
1.20 Honey processing (Anne Hulme)
1.40 Food hygiene regulations (Jim Sim, NZ Food Safety Authority)
2.00 Exotic disease (Byron Taylor)
2.20 AFB National Pest Management Strategy overview (Rex Baynes. Manager)
2.40 How to attract new members to your club (Carol Downer, Auckland Branch)
3.00 Panel discussion from the floor
3.30 Closing and thanks to the chair

Sunday 13th July

Active Manuka Honey Association
The AMHA Seminars are open to all members of the beekeeping industry

Seminar One 11am – 12 Noon
Medsafe & Claims
(Please bring a copy of your website and promotion material)

Seminar Two 1 pm – 2 pm
Processing Validation

AMHA AGM 2 pm
(Closed meeting: AMHA members only)

Monday 14 July
Specialty Group Meetings
Open to all the beekeeping Industry

9 - 10 am Review of the Organic Regulations Pertaining to Exports
Kay Shapland - NZFSA
This review carries on from an earlier meeting held at the BIG conference

10 -12 Noon New Zealand Queen Bee Producers Association

1 – 3 pm New Zealand Packers and Honey Exporters Association

3.15 - 5 pm New Zealand Honey Bee Pollination Association General meeting and AGM
6.30 pm Mix & Mingle in the Evening
7.00 pm Meet our overseas Guest Speaker:
Des Cannon, Australia – Australian research projects and their funding

Tuesday 15 July
8.00am Opening of the conference by the Mayor of Masterton
8.30 am–3 pm NBA AGM

Seminar
3.30 - 4 pm Honey Marketing – John Rawcliff
4.00 - 5 pm Bee Products Standard Council & Discussion
Follows on from the April meeting
6.00 pm Sponsors’ Evening & Presentations

Wednesday 16 July
National Pest Management Strategy Programme

8.30 am Welcome - Frans Laas
8.35 am AFB NPMS Manager’s Report - Rex Baynes
9.15 am Helicopter Surveillance Exercise - Frans Laas
9.45 am Morning Tea
10.15 am Annual Report – AsureQuality - Byron Taylor
10.45 am New Zealand Food Safety Authority - Greg Zemke-Smith
11.15 am Open Forum - Delegates
12.15 am Closure - Frans Laas
Note: The programme and timing maybe subject to minor alterations

Woman’s bus trip leaves 9.30 am to 4.30 pm
Visits a number of places of interest including the Paua Factory and time for shopping.
Lunch at the Gladstone Hotel.

Afternoon Bus trip 12.noon to 4.30pm
Late Barbeque lunch at the Tui Brewery - escorted visited through the factory – sampling.
Wine and splits for those that don’t drink beer.
Note that suitable footwear must be worn as there could be broken glass on the floor.

For those not interested in shopping or seeing the sights, it is hoped that videos of the best presentations from Apimondia and the New South Wales 2008 conference will be screened for a couple of hours.

Conference Dinner (Formal dress) & Entertainment (Special Location)
6pm - Bus pick up from Hotel and Motels by arrangement only
DON’T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!

Thursday 16 July
Seminars - technology in beekeeping

8.30 Remote hive weighing Des Cannon
9.00 BeeSpeak- Acoustic monitoring of hives - Clive Mitchell
9.30 Harvest Electronics - Remote weather stations – Peter Munn
10 am Morning tea
10.30 Protecting NZ honey: proof of origin (James Driscoll)
11.00 Climate change: the insurance effect and impact on the beekeeping industry (Wayne Thomas, FMG)
11.30 Tutin – results to date (Jim Sim, NZFSA)

12.00 Lunch

Seminars - where are we going
1.00 Manuka Honey Testing Procedures – Gordana Aleksic-NZLabs
1.30 Current research at the University of Waikato (Prof Peter Molan)
2.00 Possible bio-control of Varroa-Dr Mark Goodwin
2.30 E.F.B possible effect on NZ beekeeping - Murray Reid
3 pm Afternoon tea
3.30 Chemical Resistant Varroa - Dr Mark Goodwin
4.00 Small Hive Beetle in Australia - Des Cannon
4.30 Questions

Sunday, April 27, 2008 - 10:38 PM

MONDAY 14th JULY 2008
Copthorne Hotel & Resort Solway Park MASTERTON

10am - 12 NZ Queen Bee Producer Association
General Meeting followed by AGM

1pm - 3pm NZ Honey Packers & Exporters Association AGM

3.15 - 5pm NZ Honey Bee Pollination Association
General Meeting followed by AGM
All welcome.

Thursday, March 06, 2008 - 02:54 PM

Click on the link below to get more details how to get to Masterton by:
Taxi
Co-op Shuttle
Met link Airport Flyer Buses
Trains to the Wairarapa
Helicopter

If you let us and the hotel know your are travelling by train you can be met at the Solway station just let the guard/ driver know you what to get off at Solway station.

Please note there is no direct bus link to Masterton from Wellington

Link to Transport to the Wairarapa.

Thursday, February 21, 2008 - 11:40 PM

Please click on the conference registration form to download and fill in.

Please send your completed registration form and payment to:
Mary-Ann Lindsay, Conference Treasurer, 26 Cunliffe Street, Johnsonville, Wellington 6037
E-mail: lindsays.apiaries@xtra.co.nz.


Please forward this accommodation reservation form direct to the Copthorne Hotel & Resort, Solway Park, Wairarapa. Reservations Manager, in order to secure your accommodation for the National Beekeepers Association Conference, Sunday 13th - Thursday 17th July 2008.

Thursday, February 07, 2008 - 05:48 PM

NATIONAL BEEKEEPERS’ ASSOCIATION OF NZ (INC)
SEMINAR & CONFERENCE 2008

Please come and help us celebrate our Branch Centenary to be held at
Solway Park & Conference Centre, Masterton
13 JULY - 17 JULY 2008

Sunday 13 July
Hobby Forum : Everyone welcome

Monday 14 July
Specialty Group Meetings
Guest Speaker ?
Mix & Mingle in the Evening

Tuesday 15 July
Seminar with various speakers
NBA Annual General Meeting
Sponsors Evening & Presentations

Wednesday 16th July
NPMS AGM
Bus Trips
Conference Dinner (Formal dress) & Entertainment (Special Location)

Thursday 17th July
Seminar with various Speakers

THE NBA WELCOMES ALL MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS TO JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING AND INFORMATIVE CONFERENCE 2008
CELEBRATING OVER 100 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPING IN THE SOUTHERN NORTH ISLAND OF NZ

Thursday, January 17, 2008 - 07:39 PM

The annual conference of the National Beekeepers Association of New Zealand Inc. will be held at Solway Park in Masterton from the 14th to the 18th of July, 2008.

Further information will be published as it arrives from the organising committee.

Friday, June 29, 2007 - 08:27 PM

The National Beekeepers'Association of New Zealand Inc.
gratefully acknowledges the strong support it has received
for the 2007 Annual Conference in Dunedin.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 07:19 PM

Kindly Sponsored by:


Mike Brown is the Head of the National Bee Unit of the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DFRA) at the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) in the United Kingdom.

Mike’s initial background and training is commercial beekeeping. Before joining the Central Science Laboratory (CSL) National Bee Unit (NBU) he worked in commercial beekeeping in France, Tunisia and California. In France he worked for one of the largest French bee businesses, Famille Mary, who run over 2,000 colonies for honey, royal jelly and pollen production and specialise in sales of a wide range of apiculture products (including 30 different types of honey) by mail order. In Tunisia he worked on a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) project looking at various varroa control options including essential oils (his first contact with the varroa mite). In the USA he helped manage a queen-rearing business in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California for a number of years.

In 1988 Mike joined the National Bee Unit, and was responsible for laboratory diagnostics, apiary management and commercial work, moving to managing the field advisory and inspection service from 1993- 2002. He became Head of the integrated NBU in April 2003 with responsibility for management of the bee health programmes in England and Wales on behalf of UK governments (Defra and the Welsh Assembly) comprising:
• General apiculture and colony management: bee diseases, their diagnosis, recognition and control
• Training and extension programmes
• Regulatory affairs and import risk analysis, technical support to Policy
• Supporting research and development of the bee health programme.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 - 07:18 PM

The conference seminar programme features:
• Bee and Bee Product Research
• World Trade
• Technology In Beekeeping
• Varroa and Bee Disease Management

Read the full Seminar Programme.

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 04:17 PM

The following notice for the AGM and a General Meeting of the Honey NZ Packers Assn. (incl.the Honey Exporters Group) is presented for your information.

The meeting is being held in the afternoon of Monday 2nd July at the NBA Conference venue in Dunedin. We open the meeting to members and non-members alike who may be interested in possibly joining the Association and supporting the work we do on behalf of packers and exporters.

The meeting agenda includes updates from NZFSA representatives on a number of subjects of interest to all of us in this sector of our industry. This includes residue monitoring, RMP's, cost recovery funding, and overseas market access.

If you are going to attend the NBA Conference, then consider getting along to this meeting. You WILL be better informed as a result.

Allen McCaw
HPA Chairman

Monday, April 02, 2007 - 11:20 PM

National Beekeepers’ Association of NZ (Inc) Seminars & Conference

2 July – 5 July 2007

‘The most important event of the NZ Beekeeping Year’

Hosted by the Otago and Southland NBA Branches, to be held at the Kingsgate Hotel and The Dunedin Centre, Dunedin City (“Edinburgh of the South”).

Invitation, programme and registration form ...

Sunday, February 25, 2007 - 08:43 PM

When: Monday July 2nd 2007 to Thursday July 5th 2007
Where: Dunedin City (“Edinburgh of the South”)
Venue: Kingsgate Hotel and Dunedin Conference Centre.

Programme:
Monday July 2nd at Kingsgate Hotel
Specialty Group Meetings
NZFSA E-Cert Seminar and Training session
Evening: Get-Together – Meet ‘n Greet.

Tuesday July 3rd at The Conference Centre, Dunedin Town Hall.
Seminar Day One:
1)Bee Research
2) Export Marketing.
Evening: Sponsors Dinner and Demos.

Wednesday July 4th at The Conference Centre, Dunedin Town Hall
Seminar Day Two:
3) Varroa and Bee Disease Management,
4) Technology and General Interest Items.
Evening: Conference Dine and Dance

Thursday July 5th at Kingsgate Hotel
NBA Annual General Meeting and Conference

Accommodation:
Kingsgate Hotel, 10 Smith Street, Dunedin

Phone: (03) 477 6784 Fax: (03) 474 0115.

E-mail: dunedin@kingsgatehotels.co.nz

Room Rate: $100 per night – twin or double.

Contact the Kingsgate Hotel direct for accommodation bookings.

A detailed programme and pre-Conference Registration Form will be included in the April issue of the “Beekeeper” magazine – so keep an eye out for it folks !

LOOKING FORWARD TO HOSTING YOU ALL IN DUNEDIN THIS JULY.

2007 Conference Co-Organisers:
Frans Laas, Ph (03) 4894597 Mobile: (027) 230 7157. E-mail: f-laas@xtra.co.nz
Blair Dale, Ph (03) 4643122 Mobile: (027) 464 3125 E-mail: bdale@clear.net.nz
Allen McCaw, Ph (03) 4177198 Mobile: (021)190 2785 E-Mail: amccaw@clear.net.nz

Monday, July 17, 2006 - 06:04 PM

The 2006 Annual Conference of the National Beekeepers Association was officially opened in Hamilton today by Mr Shane Ardern, MP and opposition spokesman for Biosecurity.

Mr Ardern expressed his concern that New Zealand was losing the battle against incursions and told the audience that there had been 229 incursions in the last five years. He said that the recent Auditor General's report into biosecurity had done nothing to ally his concerns.

Shane said that it was scandalous to permit the importation of honey because the potential introduction of disease could impact not only on the bee industry, but more importantly would have flow on effects into the pastoral and horticultural sectors. He reminded the conference the 72% of all exports came from the primary sector and that despite recent Government policies to encourage other exports, it is the primary sector that has significant potential to export more value added good.

Mr Ardern said that the most dangerous enemy for biosecurity was the appearance of a culture of apathy with an almost indecent willingness and haste in thinking that it is too hard to stop incursions and protect our borders. He said that "the atmosphere within Government is that with increased trade, incursions are inevitable and that we will just have to live with it."

Shane Ardern called for more information on the long term potential impacts of incursions.

Mr Ardern recognized the current challenges being faced by the beekeeping industry. He said that the success in overcoming these challenges will affect all, including those in the primary industry and the rest of New Zealand because we need our economy to succeed.

Shane Ardern MP with John Bassett from Te Kuiti

Sunday, July 02, 2006 - 01:49 PM

Not Long to go…………16-20th JULY

Conference is here in the Mighty Waikato at the Glenview International Hotel and Conference Centre, 254 Ohaupo Road.  Phone (07) 843 6049.

Important: Please book your accommodation immediately because there is a huge demand in Hamilton from other events.

Don’t miss this memorable event – not o­nly to learn about the history of beekeeping but also to learn about Strategies for the future – if you’re not there to partake in this seminar session you will miss the opportunity to influence the face of the future for our Industry.  It is important – Bee there!!

Download Conference Seminar Agenda

Plus learn everything there is to know about European Foulbrood from Des Cannon from Australia.

Roy Paterson Trophy:  If anyone has something to enter into this years event please contact the Lorimer’s email:  hunnybee@wave.co.nz
Or phone (07) 8569625. 

Open to any beekeeping gadget or innovation relating to our Industry.

We understand that the accommodation at the Hotel is now booked out, as is the Airport Motor Inn.  The Glenview Hotel has undertaken to provide free shuttle busses to pick up people to bring them to the venue if people do not have their own transport.

Other suggestions for accommodation are:

Narrows Landing: 431 Airport Road  (07) 858 4001  $175-250

Hillcrest Lodge:  334 Cobham Drive:  0800 427 666    $95-225

Ventura Inn and Suites 23 Clarence Street  (07) 838 0110 $109-139

Abbey Travel lodge Motel 12 Lorne St (07) 843 4368 $89-130

Ashwood Manor  16 Thackeray St   0800 688 866  $125-295

Aspen Manor  209 Grey St   0800 277 369   $105-135

Hamilton Gardens Motel 93 Grey st  (07) 856 5446  $93

Hamilton Town and Country motel 597 Cambridge rd
     (07) 856 7722  $85-130

Lake Point Motel 42 Thackeray st    0800 525 376  $90-180

Colonial lodge  23 Thackeray St    (07) 838 2479  $75-135
If you are flying into Auckland and want a ride down to Hamilton contact Trevor Cullen of Ceracell Beekeeping Supplies:  Ceracell.Bee.Supplies@xtra.co.nz

STOP PRESS: 
Chance to visit :

Ruakura Bee Lab – Visit Mark and Michelle and their team – what they are doing in Research – Varroa tolerance breeding programme, treatment and methods of detection.

Innovation Park – business’ working together to achieve more.

WHEN:  Friday 21st  July

Need to book with Lorimer’s email:  hunnybee@wave.co.nz or phone (07) 8569625

Will need reasonable numbers before these will proceed.

Memorabilia

Just a reminder…………

If you have any old photographs or other interesting bits and pieces from your beekeeping past – ring Pauline Bassett (07) 878 7193.

Pauline is putting together a display at the Hotel Venue for everyone to see.

If you wish to help our special guests celebrate our 100 years – please join us o­n the Waipa Delta o­n the Sunday to be followed by afternoon tea at the Hotel to view the memorabilia and reminisce.

ALSO………

If you happen to be a long established beekeeping company, we would like you to put together something o­n an A2 sheet of paper – something from your bygone years and something depicting now.

PLEASE REGISTER NOW to:
TONY  LORIMER:
258 Tauwhare Road RD3 Hamilton

Thursday, June 29, 2006 - 08:37 PM

Please come and help us celebrate our Branch Centenary
to be held at
Glenview International Hotel & Conference Centre
Hamilton

16th JULY – 20TH July 2006

Click here to download REGISTRATION FORM

Sunday 16th July

Lunch by invitation to all long serving Beekeepers.
Everyone else welcome to attend at cost.(see reg. Form)
There will be a display of beekeeping memorabilia & photos.

Monday 17th July

Specialty Group Meetings
Mix & Mingle in the Evening

Tuesday 18th July

Seminars with various Speakers
Sponsors Evening & Presentation

Wednesday 19th July

Seminars with various Speakers
Dinner & Show at ‘Specially arranged location’

Thursday 20th July
NBA Annual General Meeting

THE NBA WELCOMES ALL MEMBERS & NON-MEMBERS TO JOIN US FOR AN EXCITING AND INFORMATIVE CONFERENCE 2006 – CELEBRATING OUR BRANCH CENTENARY AND OVER 100 YEARS OF COMMERCIAL BEEKEEPING IN NZ.

The National Beekeepers Association Annual Conference presents

TOPICAL SEMINARS

NZ Beekeeping over the last 100 years
Alternative Fuels
Bee Viruses
Cape Bee
The future of Beekeeping – The need to introduce new technology in to Beekeeping
New Research
Australian Beekeeping & Research
Exporting
NZFSA – Tutin & Plant Alkaloids

OVERSEAS SPEAKERS

Mike Allsopp – South Africa
Des Cannon - Australia

SEE THE LATEST EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS o­n DISPLAY FROM OUR SPONSORS

If you have a product you would like to share, contact Lewis Olsen, phone 07 823 6706, lewis.olsen@clear.net.nz

Click here to download REGISTRATION FORM

Conference Contacts

Russell Berry (Coordinator) Ph 07 366 6111 russell@arataki-honey-rotorua.co.nz
Lewis Olsen (Sponsorship) Ph 07 823 6706 lewis.olsen@clear.net.nz
Cameron Martin (Secretary) Ph 07 366 4804 busy-bee@xtra.co.nz
Tony Lorimer  (Treasurer)  Ph 07 856 9625 hunnybee@wave.co.nz

Thursday, June 08, 2006 - 06:17 PM

Tuesday 18th July 2006

8:20 Opening  Shane Ardern – Opposition spokesperson o­n Biosecurity  To be Confirmed
8:40 House keeping 
8:45 Waikato History Michelle Taylor - Hortresearch
8:50 Bee research / extension at Ruakura Mark Goodwin - HortResearch
9:10 Government extension in the Waikato Murray Reid - AgriQuality
9:20 Beekeeping in the early days 1950’s Dudley Lorimer
9:30 The early NBA political scene or Marketing Ian Berry
9:40 Carniolans – 2 views Brian Alexander and Russell Berry
10:10 Morning Tea 
10:40 Beekeeping in South Africa - more about the bees than the beekeepers Mike Allsopp
11:10 Tutin toxin audit results and other NZFSA issues Jim Sim - NZFSA
11:40 Export Certification Issues Greg Zemke-Smith - NZFSA
12:10 Lunch 
13:10 Launch of the new NBA Website Jim Edwards
13:30 European Foulbrood in Australia – actual topic yet to be finalised Des Cannon
14:00 Honey Research – actual topic yet to be finalised Peter Molan
14:30 Biofuels  Trevor Burling - Motor trade association
15:00 Afternoon Tea 
15:30 AFB NPMS control programme Byron Taylor - AgriQuality, Rex Baynes - NPMS Manager
16:00 AFB PMS Panel – “Have your say” Panel
16:45 End of day 1 

Wednesday 19th July 2006

8:00 House keeping 
8:10 Honey Bee viruses Jacqui Todd - HortResearch
8:40 The Capensis problem - a New Zealand perspective Mike Allsopp
9:10 Clover pollination Dr Mark Goodwin - HortResearch
9:40 Morning Tea 
10.10 Honey imports: Policy Dr Barry O’Neil
10:40 Honey Imports: Risk Assessment Dr Howard Pharo
11:10 Import Health Standards Clive Gower-Collins
11:40 Survival strategies for the beekeeping industry – “Setting the scene” Jim Edwards
12:00 Lunch 
13:00 Survival strategies for the beekeeping industry - “Have your say” Jim Edwards
13:45 DIY Research Michelle Taylor - HortResearch
14:15 How to gain funding for your research ideas Tony Kane - TechNZ, Helen Percy - SFF
14:45 Topic yet to be finalised Des Cannon
15:15 Afternoon tea 
15:45 Adding value to your product Maurine Maxwell – Bees o­nline
16:15 Future Technology in Beekeeping Fiona Kerry
16:45 Seminar programme complete

Thursday, June 23, 2005 - 12:47 PM

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Comvita NZ Ltd: www.comvita.com

Crown Equipment Ltd: www.crown.com

Ecroyd Beekeeping Supplies Ltd: www.ecroyd.com

NZ Beeswax Ltd: www.beeswax.co.nz

Wednesday, June 08, 2005 - 02:47 PM

The 2005 NBA Conference and Seminar Program and the Registration Form are both available in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format from these links.

Canterbury Branch is working hard to provide an informative and enjoyable Conference - see you there!

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 01:06 PM

At the conclusion of the successful 2004 NBA conference in Napier the Canterbury Branch was chosen to be host of the NBA Conference 2005.

Subsequently the Canterbury Branch has formed a Conference Planning Committee, and this page will bring you updates as they are known.

The first thing the committee considered was the date, to allow folk plenty of time to avoid clashes with other commitments and school holidays:

Monday 4th July 2005 - Thursday 7th July 2005

The Conference Planning Committee has also chosen a venue:


'Chateau on the Park'
Cnr Deans Ave & Kilmarnock St
(Overlooking Hagley Park south)
Website: www.chateau-park.co.nz

We have negotiated Special Room Rates for attendees of NBA Conference 2005:

Ph 0800 808 999 to book your Room


Watch this page for further updates...

Wednesday, October 20, 2004 - 12:57 PM

Conference Chairman Anthony Taiaroa Ph 03 314 4569 Email: chris.tony.taiaroa@clear.net.nz Trade Display Co-ordinators Stuart & Melanie Ecroyd Ph 03 358 7498 Email: stuart@beehealthy.co.nz Speaker Co-ordinator Brian Lancaster Ph 03 318 6966 Email: be.lancaster@xtra.co.nz

Secretary/Registrar Linda Bray Ph/Fax 03 308 4964 Email: birdsnbees@xtra.co.nz Venue & Catering Trevor Corbett Ph 027 450 4567 Email: beeworks@xtra.co.nz Entertainment Officer Richard Bensemann Ph 03 324 4410 (evenings) Email: richard@airborne.co.nz

Tuesday, June 08, 2004 - 08:16 PM

View the updated Conference Programme in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format...

Saturday, May 08, 2004 - 05:12 PM

You will be "out of it" if you don't get into the Art Deco theme for Wednesday's Conference Dine and Dance. Here's a list of costume hire companies.

Art Deco Costume & Fancy Dress Hire.
9 Te Aute Road
Havelock North
06 8770010
artdeco_costume_hire@xtra.co.nz


Costume Hire Taradale
cnr Gloucester Street and Puketapu Road
Taradale
06 8446815

Decorum
86 Tennyson Street
Napier
06 8358951

Dressways
190 Emerson Street
Napier
06 8358844

Elite Costume Hire
15 Thorn Place
Onekawa
06 8431990

Hastings Operatic Society
815 St Aubyn Street West
Hastings
06 8765659

Hiremaster The Party People
508 Queen Street West
Hastings
06 8782361
108 Taradale Road
Napier
06 8434920

Tabard Theatre Costume Hire
Coronation Street
Napier
Ph/fax 06 8358775

Theatre Hawkes Bay
704 Hastings Street North
Hastings
06 8755948

Tuesday, May 04, 2004 - 09:23 PM

Information on the NBA Conference can be found here, including schedule and registration form.