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A group working to secure the term manuka for New Zealand is running out of money.
The manuka honey industry was worth to $436 million in exports last year, the Manuka Charitable Trust says.
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In 2019, the government allocated nearly $6 million for a campaign to stop Australian beekeepers marketing their products as manuka honey.
The Manuka Charitable Trust is leading the legal fight, working to trademark the term manuka through the Intellectual Property Office.
Trust spokesman Victor Goldsmith said part of the money from The Provincial Growth Fund was a $1.7m loan to cover legal proceedings.
He said challenges from Australia and UK were pushing up costs and the loan was quickly running out.
The big budget for a new non-car harbour bridge in Auckland sparked a big 'bike-lash' in the media last week - and how we build and use our roads has become a huge wedge issue all around the country. Mediawatch asks a journalist dedicated to covering transport: do the deep divisions and inflamed opinions make it hard to report all this effectively?