Contents

COVER : Ernest Lord Rutherford pauses during a lecture.
CONTENTS - Features :
SUBURBAN BIRDS [You’ll see more birds in your backyard or local park than in the bush, and most are introduced species];
CARNEGIE LIBRARIES [Scottish-American magnate Andrew Carnegie spent the first half of his life making money and the second half giving it away. He paid for the construction of 18 New Zealand free public libraries from Gore to Onehunga];
HOKONUI MOONSHINE [In the last century illegal whisky production in Southland’s Hokonui Hills was a subject of police investigations. Today that shady past is a cause for celebration];
YESTERDAY’S SCHOOLS [The kids are good, the teachers unusually capable, the parents most supportive - but many small rural schools are still under threat];
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNEST [Rutherford, who only got into secondary school by a whisker, went on to become one of the leading physicists of the twentieth century];
CONTENTS - Departments :
EDITORIAL; LETTERS; VIEWPOINT [Importing plants]; GeoNEWS [Koi carp, didymo]; BLAKE TRUST; MEMORIES [Chocks away for Stewart Island]; KIWI; MUSEUMS [Thinking genes]; WEATHER [Pirate weather]; BOOKS [Canterbury, Orca, Atlas];