Contents

COVER : Getting the cows in for early-morning milking - an enduring part of New Zealand’s rural life.
CONTENTS - Features :
MILK - MORE THAN A DRINK [with milk prices high over the past few years, dairying has been on a roll. Each big dairy farm - a medium-sized business in terms of turnover - is now worth millions of dollars, and milk in increasingly being viewed as a mine of valuable proteins, the source of an ever-expanding family of products];
A WING AND A SNARE : PART 2 : ISLANDS OF BIRDS [There’s a lot more to the Snares Islands than albatrosses - but seabirds are without doubt the dominant feature of this subantarctic outpost];
SHEARERS UNPLUGGED [In the South Island high country, where spring weather can still turn mean, it’s no bad thing to leave a few extra millimetres of wool on the merinos at shearing. Hand shears do just that, and a few gangs of shearers still stick with the traditional tools];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [smoke from Australia]; WEATHER [Zoe’s wrath]; BOOKS [Mana Pounamu]; REMEMBRANCE [The South African War]; COMING UP [What’s in store];