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COVER : Sweet and sexy, Marigold puts on a perfect pout. It’s the look that overseas doll collectors want, and Marigold and her sisters, created by Jan McLean of Dunedin, are hot items on today’s doll market.
CONTENTS - Features :
THE CANINE CONUNDRUM [More than a quarter of all new Zealand households own one (or more) and there are somewhere between half and three-quarters of a million all told. And still that are on the increase. We obviously have a fascination for dogs, but where will it end?];
LOST IN TIME [New Zealand’s most famous extinct bird, the moa, has been gone from these shores for hundreds of years. But the myths and the mystery remain - along with some new discoveries about how and where these birds lived];
IN SEARCH OF THE COOK ISLANDS [The second instalment of a two-part article on the Cook Islands - a group of islands and atolls scattered across almost a million square miles of tropical ocean. In this issue, we turn out attention to the Southern Group];
HELLO, DOLLY! [They’re adorable, they’re collectable, and they’re bankable! The modern doll world is much more than just child’s play];
THE CATERPILLAR KILLER [A curious creature, this,which enters the body of a moth larva and takes over];
CONTENTS - Departments :
GEONEWS [schools go solar; extinct wren; new science centre]; WEATHER [Ice blocks]; PLACE NAMES [a bellicose lot]; PROFILE [The Chaffeys of Golden Bay]; BOOKS [in the footsteps of the ancestors]; SPACE [Spring haze]; SALUTE; COMING UP [What’s in store]; MINI ADS;