Contents

COVER : Some things that glister are gold.
CONTENTS - Features :
GOLD [The search for gold lay behind a lot of early NZ exploration, gold-mining was long a pillar of the economy, and we’re not finished with the yellow metal yet];
ABEL TASMAN [He was here for only a couple of weeks 350 years ago, but never set foot ashore, yet we have attached his name to scores of places. What do we know of him?];
PINE FOREST NATIVES [Pine forests are just a boring monoculture of introduced trees, right? Well, no. A surprising range of native plants and animals are very happy to call them home];
THE TARARUAS [Covering well over 1000 sq km on Wellington’s back door step, and high and rugged enough to be challenging, the Tararuas are the real home of North Island tramping];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; WEATHER [Air waves]; VIEWPOINT [Science funding]; KIWI [our new rare bird]; GEONEWS [sea snake, Kaimanawa horses, Titan, petrel transfer, a weevil rediscovered]; MEMORIES [George Adams]; TREES [Myers Park]; MUSEUMS [Thames School of Mines]; BOOKS [Atlas, Auckland plants, Tiritiri, Islands]; WORDS [Antipodean sheep terms];