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COVER : An outdoor mural makes an irrestible photo prop for visitors to Kaikoura, New Zealand’s marine mammal capital and one of the country’s tourism hotspots.CONTENTS - Features :
THE TOWN THAT WHALES BUILT [Watching marine mammals and other sea creatures is bringing more prosperity to the small north Canterbury town of Kaikoura than the old-time whales there could ever have dreamed of];
EUCALYPTS : TREES OF THE FUTURE? [In the aftermath of the mass felling of New Zealand’s native forests, for a time eucalypts looked set to meet our timber requirements, but they fell from favour and pines swept the land. Are the great Australian trees worht a second look?];
WHERE MEMORIES SPEAK : 150 YEARS AT THE AUCKLAND MUSEUM [Auckland War Memorial Museum started in a farm worker’s cottage in 1852. Now its accumulated treasures and collections are world-class, and the present grand premises are unable to contain them];
ERATICATION : THE CLEARANCE OF CAMPBELL ISLAND [Subantarctic Campbell Island - over 11,000 ha, much of it precipitous - has been cleared of rates in the largest and most demanding operation of its kind since the Piped Piper took on Hamlin];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; WEATHER [the perfect storm]; COMING UP [What’s in store];