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COVER : For close to 40 years, Isabel Harper has been bringing happiness to children attending A & P shows with her kewpie dolls and windmills. Like many stall and side show operators, Isabel travels the countryside from show to show during the annual A & P circuit.
CONTENTS - Features :
WHERE TOWN MEETS COUNTRY [For 150 years, A & P shows have been bringing town and country together in annual fiestas of candy floss and roller coasters, livestock contests and sponge-cake baking. The tradition continues ...];
FEASTING ON FUNGI [Ooh, gross, a toadstool! But is it! Perhaps that unfamiliar fungus is a morel or a bolete or a shaggy ink cap - little known mushrooms which are not only edible, they’re incredible];
NATURE’S CHAMPAGNE [Odourless, colourless, tasteless - this unprententious liquid we call water is the elixir of life. Where does our drinking water come from, and what is done to it ‘twixt reservoir and tap? We offer a toast to Adam’s ale];
HIKOI [In January of this year, 50 marchers crossed East Cape using ancestral trails rich in the history of two Maori tribes. Their aim : to reforge ancient family links and prepare themselves for a more unified future];
MUSSEL POWER [Growing greenshell mussels is the dominant aquaculture industry in New Zealand, with more than 400 farms devoted to the nurture of these succulent shellfish. We look at the history of the industry, how it has coped with a recent toxic algal scare and something of the biology of this group of bivalves];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; GEONEWS [a new brown kiwi]; WEATHER [on a high]; SPACE [go Galileo]; BOOKS [Artists and landscapes and journeys in the Pacific]; SALUTE;