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COVER : Unthinkable as it might seem today to have a child’s image preserved thus, 100 years ago such extravagant portraiture was all the rage. From the Tyree collection, Nelson Provincial Museum
CONTENTS - Features :
TALES OF THE UNDERWORLD [In many parts of New Zealand, the rocks below ground are riddled with caves more numerous than the borer holes in a Ponsonby villa. Into this stygian maze cavers insert themselves, one minute struggling through a muddy crack the size of a drainpipe, the next breaking into a chamber as awe-inspiring as a cathedral];
IMAGES FROM THE FRONTIER [Brothers Fred and Willaim Tyree set up a photographic business in Nelson in the 1880s, capturing every mood and facet of life in the developing colony];
MEN OF STEEL [the foundry of A. & G. Price in Thames has cast and shaped metal for more than 125 years, making everything from steam locomotives to the keel for Black Magic];
KAKA : THE TALKATIVE BIRD [The forest once rang to the cries of great flocks of kaka, but the bird is now in danger of extinction on the mainland as a result of predation];
CROWDED SKIES - THE UFO EXPERIENCE IN NEW ZEALAND [From the first reports of mysterious “airships” in 1909, through the gamut of flying saucer sightings to the more recent phenomenon of alien abductions, New Zealand has its own distinguished history of encounters with unorthodox aerial visitors];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; EDITORIAL; GEONEWS [Spartina invasion; turtle trouble]; SPACE [mars attracts]; WEATHER [the effects of ice ages]; COMING UP;