Mr Allen McCaw, of Milton, MNZM for services to the apiculture industry
Allen McCaw and his wife have co-owned their Otago beekeeping and honey packing business since 1977. He has worked to support and promote the marketing of New Zealand honey. He has helped foster collaboration and formalise the apiary industry’s planning through leadership roles in the New Zealand Honey Packers and Exporters Association, Honey Industry Trusts, and Executive of the National Beekeepers Association. As a member of the Bee Products Standards Council, he assisted in developing agreed industry procedures for food safety and exporting standards. He volunteered on the Apicultural Industry Unification Project. Mr McCaw invented an innovative honey drip tray pallet to store honey supers during the extraction process.