Contents

COVER : The niceties of oral hygiene on Macquarie Island.
CONTENTS - Features :
HARVEST OF SOULS [When Mayor Hatch of Invercargill turned his entrepreneurial energies toward the natural resources of sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, it was bad news for sea elephants and penguins];
TAXI [Taxi businesses around the globe are operated by new immigrant communities, and Auckland has followed this trend since deregulation of the taxi industry];
THE MENACE OF STOATS [Slinky, cunning, fleet of foot and voracious, these pint-sized hunters are the ultimate predators in the land of lizards and birds];
SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS [Around the world, millions of computers analyse data from radio telescopes in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. What are the chances that we will stumble upon an eye peering back down the telescope?];
A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE [Some of the least accessible back-country stations in the South Island have been established along the Clarence River where it has carved a valley between the inhospitable Kaikoura ranges];
CONTENTS - Departments :
LETTERS; DIRECTORIAL; VIEWPOINT [Friendly atoms]; WEATHER; GeoNEWS [Georgian cabbage trees, mountain lizards, dolphins]; BLAKE TRUST; KIWI; ON THE ROCKS [Sulphur]; MUSEUMS [Whaling in Mangonui];