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COVER : Glass conservator Graham Stewart examines the main window of St Mary’s church, Tikitiki, for signs of deterioration. The window was created in the 1920s by Frederick Mash, a Christchurch stained-glass artists, and depicts Captain Pekama Kaa and Second Lieutenant Henare Kohere, who died serving in World War I, along with Christian amd Maori symbols.
CONTENTS - Features :
AROUND THE RUGGED ROCKS THE RAGGED RASCALS RAN [Auckland’s St Marys Bay, its shore now buried beneath the snarling bitumen of the harbour bridge approach motorway, was once a series of quiet coves where schoolboys swam, fished and skirmished];
LEST WE FORGET : RESTORING A HISTORIC CHURCH [In the aftermath of World War I a small church was built in Tikitiki, near East Cape, to commemorate Ngati Porou’s losses. This church was considered a fine fusion of Maori and Pakeha decoration, has recently been restored];
MINDERS : THE KAKAPO CAREGIVERS OF CODFISH ISLAND [Behind every successful kakapo mother on Whenua Hoa / Codfish Island this summer was a video camera and a bevy of anxious and hardworking human volunteers];
LIFE IN A NEW LAND [There is more to be found on Whenua Hoa than just kakapo and their support crew];
ALL THE FUN OF THE GYPSY FAIR [Each year 40 gaily painted house-tracks and their colourful inhabitants spend eight months taking their combination of travelling craft market and carnival on the road];
THE MYSTERY OF THE DISAPPEARING MISTLETOES [What lies behind the decline of mistletoes, vines that once brightened our forests - especially beech forests - with a riot of crimson blossom?];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [snake discovery; focusing on frogs; mapping the environment]; BOOKS [The New Nature; Feral Future; The Future of Life]; WEATHER [the weather bomb]; COMING UP [What’s in store];